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  • 2022-09-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Does Germany No Longer Recommend COVID-19 Vaccines? (en)
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  • A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows Robert Koch Institute Director Stephan Kohn announcing Germany no longer recommends COVID-19 vaccines. Verdict: False Germany has not suspended the use of COVID-19 vaccines. The country recommends that everyone over the age of 18 get a COVID-19 vaccine booster. Fact Check: Germany began administering Omicron-adapted COVID-19 booster vaccines earlier in September, according to Reuters . Demand for booster vaccinations against the virus has been lower than expected, the outlet reported. The Facebook video shows a man identified as Stephan Kohn, the Director of the Robert Koch Institute, saying there is a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccines. BREAKING NEWS — GERMANY HALTS ALL C19 VACCINES, THEY ARE UNSAFE AND NO LONGER RECOMMENDED, the post’s caption reads. NO ONE CAN GET IT & the vaccine license has been put on pause!! The claim is baseless. The German government’s website , citing the Standing Commission on Vaccination (STIKO), continues to recommend that everyone over the age of 18 receive a COVID-19 booster. The German Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines also continues to list COVID-19 vaccines as authorized. There are no credible news reports suggesting the vaccines have been banned. A spokesperson for the Federal Health Ministry told The Associated Press that Germany has not banned or paused the COVID-19 vaccinations and would also receive millions more doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. (RELATED: Did Pfizer Create A COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Vaporizer Cartridge’?) The video also does not show the actual Robert Koch Institute director. Instead, the clip is from an August 2021 pandemic exercise that shows a crisis team of a fictitious German government that simulated a fourth COVID wave and supply chain interruptions among other scenarios. None of the people in the simulation are part of the institute. German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach touted vaccination as a way to help prevent long-term lasting effects of COVID-19 in a Sept. 13 tweet . Impfungen verhindern nach jetzigen Stand Wissenschaft #LongCovid . Besser BA.5 Impfung als BA.5 Infektion. https://t.co/749iEac8oj — Prof. Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) September 14, 2022 Vaccinations prevent according to the current state of science #LongCovid. Better BA.5 vaccination than BA.5 infection, a translation of the tweet reads. This is not the first time that a false claim regarding Germany’s COVID-19 vaccination use has viral. Check Your Fact debunked a post that claimed Germany had halted the administration of COVID-19 vaccines in September 2021. (en)
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