Australia’s drug regulator received two hoax reports of children dying from Covid vaccines
Exclusive: Therapeutic Goods Administration documents reveal separate reports made in 2022 about two boys, aged six and seven, were false
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Australia’s drug regulator received two reports of child deaths after vaccination against Covid-19 that turned out to be hoaxes.
Therapeutic Goods Administration documents on fatal adverse events in children and adolescents after a Covid-19 vaccination published under freedom of information show that a report was made to the body in January 2022 that a seven-year-old boy had died from “an adverse event following immunisation” with an unspecified brand of Covid vaccine.
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