Disinfo: AstraZeneca kills

Summary

AstraZeneca kills: a European country refused it.

Disproof

Disinformation that advances pro-Kremlin propaganda against the COVID-19 vaccines produced in the USA and Europe. The claim appeared in the title wrongly creating an impression that AstraZeneca Vaccine is designed to cause deaths.

It is true that in Austria a 49-year old woman died as a result of multiple thromboses and a 35-year-old was also hospitalised for a pulmonary embolism after receiving a vaccine from the same batch. However, the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care of Austria said that there is no evidence of a causal relationship with vaccination.

Austria did not refuse to use the vaccine, but only a certain batch of the vaccine will not be used. European Medicine Agency also said that there is no proof that AstraZeneca vaccine caused death.

A number of EU Member States' Health authorities are currently reviewing the medial cases where side effects have occurred while they have suspended the use of that vaccine or batch. No EU Member States has decided to cancelled the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

On 18 March 2021, EMA confirmed that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine still outweigh the risks despite the possible link to rare blood clots with low blood platelets.

See more disinformation regarding the vaccine such as claims that the globalists use the pandemic and Pfizer vaccine to reduce the world's population or that there is no evidence Russia waged a disinformation campaign targeting Western coronavirus vaccines.

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sputnik.az (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 236
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 07/03/2021
  • Article language(s) Azerbaijani
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Austria, EU
  • Keywords: coronavirus, vaccination, health
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This revolution was called the "Revolution of Dignity" and represents the awakening of Ukrainian society to a better, Western world. For this purpose, the direct interference of Western states in the internal affairs of Ukraine was a legitimate means, after all, it was about promoting democracy and freedom - it was about supporting the legitimate aspirations of the vast majority of people in Ukraine. It was a good project.

In the meantime, the German media has become quite quiet about Ukraine. This is due to the fact that Ukraine is further away from Western values, democracy, the rule of law and freedom than ever before. On the contrary, Ukraine is tipping over into totalitarianism and is destroying everything in the country that could be summarised under the title "European values".

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Yes, it is becoming increasingly clear that Ukraine is a totalitarian state. And it could only become so with the vigorous help of Western states.

Mar 06, 2021
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There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014; this is a longstanding pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine's Euromaidan protests.

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Disinfo: The Navalny case was a staged poisoning

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Disinfo: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the process of militarisation of Italian society

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The Recovery Fund itself will be used as a resource-tool to legitimise the excessive power of the national and international military-industrial-financial complex. Military exercises, such as the NATO Dynamic Manta naval exercise, can also serve to convey false images of the military’s “efficiency” to justify the suffocating presence of the military in almost all public spheres.

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This article claims that there is a “global strategy” to exploit the Covid-19 pandemic in order to strengthen authoritarianism in the West, including Italy, which is allegedly being “militarised” in the interest of the global “military-industrial-financial complex”.