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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey Medical editor

Australia’s drug regulator received two hoax reports of children dying from Covid vaccines

Child getting Covid vaccine
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration received two hoax reports in 2022 of children dying after getting a Covid vaccine. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

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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