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Fact-Checking False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines and Canadian Doctor Deaths

February 17, 2023
Article translated and edited by: Adisorn Suksomath
Editing and proofreading: Khomsthanon Sukajjasakul

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False information was posted on Instagram in the United States in 2022 by Gateway Pundit, a website with a history of spreading fake news about COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that three doctors from a Canadian hospital must have died in the same week. The reason is due to the policy requiring medical personnel to receive the fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Conclusion:

All three doctors died of cancer. None of the deaths were related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

FACT CHECK: Check the facts:

One such incident occurred at Trillium Health Partners, a hospital network in Toronto, Canada, where three doctors died on July 17, 18, and 19 in 2022.

In 2021, Trillium Health Partners announced a policy requiring employees, medical staff, volunteers and study visitors to the hospital. Everyone must receive the COVID-19 vaccination, effective September 7, 2021.

However, Trillium Health Partners confirmed this via X The deaths of the three doctors were caused by cancer. It is in no way related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

The claim that the three doctors died suddenly is also not true. Information from close people and mourning articles confirms that the three doctors died after a long battle with the disease.

Dr. Lorne Siegel, 49, died on July 17, 2022, after a difficult battle with terminal lung cancer.

Dr. Stephen McKenzie, 68, founder of Trillium Health Partners’ neurology division, died on July 18, 2022, after battling cancer for many years.

Dr. Jacob Sawicki, 36, died on July 19, 2022 after being diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer in August 2021.

The origin of the rumor comes from the Instagram account of Monique Mackey, a Canadian real estate agent. People with a history of spreading conspiracy theories claiming that the COVID-19 virus doesn’t actually exist and has even traveled making video clips in deserted hospitals to create a misunderstanding Covid-19 epidemic It is deceptive because there are not many people infected. Until the medical staff will have to work hard, as the media claims.

Similar behavior includes Simone Gold, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, an organization that opposes COVID-19 policies. of the US government she was subsequently sentenced to 60 days in prison for invading the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

This was discovered by research from Imperial College London published in the Lancet medical journal in August 2022During the first year of use Covid-19 vaccine Helps prevent the deaths of 14.4 million people worldwide.

Reference information:

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/scicheck-tre-canadi-medici-died-of-long-term-illnesses-contrary-to-false-claims-covid-19-vaccine-was-cause/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/29/gateway-pundit/deaths-tre-doctors-canada-were-neither-sudden-no/
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-hospital-network-mourns-loss-of-three-doctors-who-died-within-a-week-1.6004215

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