‘Utter fear’: Gold Coast GP receives death threats from ‘anti-vaxxers’ after false claim of child vaccine deaths

Dr Wilson Chin pulled his GP clinic out of the vaccine rollout after Facebook posts falsely claimed two girls died after being vaccinated and his staff received death threats. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

A Gold Coast doctor has been subjected to death threats and abuse and is living in “utter fear” of anti-vaxxers thanks to false reports that two children died in his clinic after being administered the Pfizer vaccine.

The Pacific Pines GP, Dr Wilson Chin, said “widespread panic” swept through his community when false reports spread online that the two children had died in his clinic.