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COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause 'Permanent Disabilities,' Says German
Health Minister

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https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1635370825577803776


Germany’s Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who once claimed that
COVID-19 vaccination is free of side effects, admitted last week that
he was wrong, saying adverse reactions occur at a rate of one in
10,000 doses and can cause “severe disabilities.”
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach speaks to the media to explain
a new government plan to fundamentally reform Germany's hospital
system in Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 06, 2022. (Sean Gallup/Getty
Images)

On Aug. 14, 2021, Lauterbach said on Twitter that the vaccines had “no
side effects,” further questioning why some Germans refused to get
vaccinated against COVID-19.

During an interview on ZDF’s “Heute Journal” on March 12, Lauterbach
was asked by anchor Christian Sievers about the claim he made in the
summer of 2021, confronting the health minister with his previous
tweet that stated the shots are virtually free of side effects.

Lauterbach responded that the tweet was “misguided” and an
“exaggeration” he made at the time, noting that it “did not represent
my true position.”

“I’ve always been aware of the numbers and they’ve remained relatively
stable … one in 10,000 [are injured],” Lauterbach said. “Some say that
it’s a lot, and some say it’s not so many.”

Lauterbach’s remark on vaccine adverse events came after the German
network played a segment of several Germans who’ve been seriously
injured after getting the shot, including a 17-year-old gymnast who
previously competed in the German Artistic Gymnastics Championships
before she was hospitalized for more than one year shortly after
receiving the second dose of the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

“What do you say to those who have been affected [by vaccine
injuries]?” Sievers asked Lauterbach.

“What’s happened to these people is absolutely dismaying, and every
single case is one too many,” Lauterbach responded. “I honestly feel
very sorry for these people. There are severe disabilities, and some
of them will be permanent.”

Steve Kirsch, executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research
Foundation, did not agree with Lauterbach, but he commended the health
minister for making “progress” when comparing his latest remark to his
previous comments regarding the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19
vaccines.

“The true rate of serious adverse events is approximately 100 times
greater than the figures Lauterbach cited—’closer to 1 in 100 doses’
and ‘For death, it is ~1 in 1,000 doses,'” Kirsch said on Twitter.

By Oct. 31, 2022, the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut received a total of
333,492 individual case reports on suspected COVID-19 vaccine adverse
reactions or vaccine side effects in Germany, according to official
data (pdf) released in December 2022 by the medical regulatory body
that researches vaccines and biomedicines.

“The number of individual case reports per month peaked in December
2021 and continued through the summer,” according to the federal
agency, which is subordinate to the German Ministry of Health.

Despite these findings, the country’s health ministry website states,
as of March 16, that “modern vaccines are safe and adverse effects
only occur in sporadic cases.”
Lawsuits Pending

As the subject of post-vaccine injuries has started to be more widely
covered by some German media outlets, lawsuits have begun to roll out
against BioNTech, and also against other COVID-19 vaccine
manufacturers.

BioNTech has denied all responsibilities, ZDF reported.

Vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer and Moderna have immunity from
liability if something unintentionally goes wrong with their vaccines,
putting them in a very strong legal position.

“It’s true that within the framework of these EU contracts, the
companies were largely exempted from liability and that the liability,
therefore, lies with the German state,” Lauterbach said.

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