“Twenty-five elderly patients in nursing homes in Norway died after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.”
What Vera Files found
The Norwegian Medicines Agency(NMA) said the deaths of the elderly patients after receiving Pfizer jabs “do not imply that there is a causal relationship between the deaths and the vaccine.” It noted that an average of 45 persons die every day in nursing homes in Norway, and many of the deaths were due to the underlying conditions suffered by the patients.
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In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 18 January 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 29 January 2021, 11 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/qPfQbcr3NGA?t=94
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