- According to numerous social media posts, three people from Israel, Switzerland and from Portugal would have died after being vaccinated against Covid – 0001.
- What do we know about these deaths? For the time being, the cause and effect link has not been proven in any of these three cases.
Have people died after been vaccinated against Covid – 19 , and the injection was the cause of their death? While the vaccine campaign against coronavirus is illustrated by its slowness in France , the consequences and possible side effects – a few million people have already been vaccinated across the world – are being scrutinized on 
Switzerland, Portugal, Israel … According to several posts on Twitter , at least three people from these three countries are believed to have died shortly after receiving a first dose. Fatal consequence or simple coincidence? 19 Minutes takes stock of these sudden deaths.
No causal link demonstrated in Israel
In Beit She’an, northeast Israel, a man from 41 years old died of a heart attack, Monday 28 December, two hours after s’ be inoculated with the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine – 0001. The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed the death, and said the man had suffered from several heart attacks in the past.
According to Jerusalem Post , the Minister of Health, Chezy Levy, immediately ordered the opening of an investigation aimed at estimating the causes of death. The first results do not show a direct causal link between the death of the man and his vaccination, reports the daily. This Sunday, 1, 20 million people had already been vaccinated in Israel, according to the site Our World In Data , which compiles global immunization data.
The link between the vaccine and a death at Lucerne (Switzerland) “highly improbable”
A man aged 91 years died five days later have received the vaccine against Covid – in Lucerne, Switzerland, according to an article by Zeitpunkt . According to the news site, this resident of an establishment for people with dementia was vaccinated on 23 December.
In a press release , Swissmedic , the Swiss Therapeutic Products Institute, said on Wednesday 28 December, that the existence of a link between the recent death of a nonagenarian “who suffered from serious previous illnesses” and the vaccine was “highly unlikely “. Still according to the press release, the Institute believes that the investigations it has carried out, as well as those led by the cantonal health authorities, indicate “a natural cause of death”, as could be noted on “the death certificate” of the patient.
The city of Lucerne was the first Swiss city to launch its campaign via the vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. Informed of the death of a patient, the Pfizer laboratory informed the press agency Reuters that “unvaccine-related deaths are unfortunately likely to occur at a rate similar to that of the general population of elderly and at-risk people who are currently priority for vaccination ”.
autopsy results expected after death in Portugal
Sónia Azevedo, an operational assistant of the Porto Institute of Oncology (IPO) of 30 years old, died suddenly two days after being vaccinated against Covid – 0001. The IPO, who confirmed this information with Jornal de Notícias , explained that the agent had received the vaccine the 30 last December and that no “adverse effects had been reported at the time of vaccination, or in the days following”. Like her, 538 employees of the Institute have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
For the time being, there is no evidence to link the vaccination and death. The family of the victim, who “asks for answers”, expects a lot from the autopsy of their daughter, which was to take place this Tuesday, underlines the Correio da Manhã . “She spent New Years Eve with us and it was good,” Sónia’s father, Abílio Azevedo said on a daily basis. She was vaccinated, but she didn’t complain about anything. I don’t understand what happened. “