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  • 2020-12-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Clinical Trial Participant Develop 'Huge Bleeding Sores' From a COVID-19 Vaccine? (en)
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  • On Nov. 12, 2020, a GoFundMe page titled Medical and Child Care Expenses was created by the cousin of a participant involved in a clinical trial of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Snopes is withholding the participant's last name for privacy reasons. Patricia was involved in a COVID-19 vaccine study recently and has had a severe adverse reaction, the post originally stated. She has not been able to walk or go to work for almost three weeks now because of huge bleeding sores on her feet. These sores are called a Fixed Drug Eruption... Screenshots from this GoFundMe page have since been used as evidence of the danger of the COVID-19 vaccine on Facebook, Twitter, and fringe news websites, each of which blindly assert a causal connection between the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the foot sores, based on these pictures: On Nov. 30, 2020, however, the creator of the GoFundMe page told potential donors that Patricia had learned she was actually in the control group — i.e., people given an injection of saline solution instead of the actual vaccine for comparison purposes: In other words, the vaccine could not have caused this condition because she was never actually given the vaccine. In a video update, Patricia stated, So just to clarify ... the vaccine manufacturer is standing their ground that I received the placebo, which is allegedly just sterile saline. ... I'm going to seek a second opinion because I don't know what the hell caused this. We reached out to the organizer of the GoFundMe to see if there had been any medical updates in her case, but have not received a response. We reached out to Pfizer to confirm Patricia's account of events. In response, they told us: While GoFundMe told us that they did temporarily remove the fundraiser, they restored the page after updated information was provided: However, because the alleged victim of the COVID-19 trial publicly disclosed that she had been informed that she was in the placebo group, and because Pfizer has told us they can definitively state ... that this individual’s medical condition is not related to her participation in the trial, we rank the claim that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused painful foot sores as False. (en)
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