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13 May 2020
A video showing children convulsing and dying in New Guinea after COVID-19 vaccination was a fraud using footage from a 2019 protest against a drug treatment program for schistosomiasis.

So that's not true. Alex has seen some videos that are making the rounds online that purported to show, quote, the aftermath of a deadly COVID-19 vaccination trial in New Guinea. This was a video, simply put, it was a fraud. Someone took already existing video of people in New Guinea protesting after some children had allegedly gotten sick from a vaccine, and they claimed this footage was related to research and testing of a new COVID-19 vaccine. And what year was that footage from? Well, the actual video is from March 2019, on a news station called Gangam. The actual news report was about a community displeasure after a few children experienced mild side effects like dizziness and fever after being in a, quote, drug treatment program to reduce the prevalence and intensity of the parasitic infection, schistomyosis, also known as snail fever. Gangan's editor-in-chief Sekou Jamal Pandasa told Reuters, quote, The editorial staff of the Gangan RTV group notes with deep regret that some internet users have been allowing themselves since Monday, April 6, 2020, to use one of our old reports to make people believe that there, in recent days, cases of discomfort due to a vaccination campaign in schools in Dubreka. We would like to point out that the report was produced on March 18, 2019. We invite you to refrain from such games during this sensitive period marked by a global health crisis.