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Apparently 8 out of 1,000 people who are vaccinated suffer from severe complications Side effects, this number corresponds to data from other countries. Are these numbers prove? ## Evaluation The Charité makes it clear: These are not the results of one scientific study, but “one that hasn’t even been completed yet open internet survey». Matthes does not yet have the data he collected published, for the alleged under-reporting of side effects no proof. ## Facts With his so-called VaccinationSurv study at the Charité, Matthes and According to the project description, his team has been recruiting people since mid-April 2021 year after their corona vaccination. This information is not current more available on the Charité website (as of May 11, 2022). A spokesman for the hospital told the German Press Agency (dpa). Request with: “This investigation is not yet one once completed, open internet survey, not in the narrower sense a scientific study. This database is not suitable for concrete conclusions about frequencies in the general population to draw and interpret in a generalized way.” In the VaccinationSurv survey, a questionnaire was asked about this to fill out self-observed vaccination reactions and side effects. People, Those who have been vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2 are directly in vaccination centers Harald Matthes explained that they had been asked via email whether they would take part the dpa. Participation was also possible in groups on the messenger service Telegram called to the survey. Data collection in this form leads to: Generally does not produce representative results. How the answers will be evaluated is unclear. Despite multiple In a written request, Matthes provided the data or the exact ones Questions from the dpa are not available. His reason: “The data are first published through scientific peer review before they are submitted to the “Go to the lay press.” This means: Experts should look at the exact values ​​first and experts look at it. The Charité makes it clear: “Professor Matthes has an endowed professorship for integrative and anthroposophical medicine at the Charité. For the The topic of Covid-19 and vaccinations is our expertise in others Institutes and clinics of university medicine.” And also Matthew himself says: “Epidemiological data must be used with appropriate tools Epidemiology must be assessed and evaluated.” Matthes also explains the extrapolation of his data in interviews Similar numbers from “other registers”, which are also significantly higher than that of the PEI. When asked by the dpa, he referred to several studies, such as this Approval studies for the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech and one Evaluation study using a database of the World Health Organization (WHO). has evaluated. The authors of the WHO evaluation came to the figure of 0.6 percent Suspected cases of serious health problems. However, they point out pointed out that it was due to “lack of correct evaluation and technical problems” was not appropriate, “everyone found health problems attributed to the vaccination. The approval studies for the two mRNA vaccines show values ​​of 0.6 percent (Pfizer/Biontech) and 1 percent (Moderna) among those detected non-fatal serious health problems. In the respective Comparison groups that only received a placebo without active ingredient are the numbers but similar or the same level and are 0.5 percent (Pfizer/Biontech) and 1 percent (Moderna). A connection with the vaccination remains unclear. Matthes’ alleged study results are also posted on Instagram together with an article about a former board member of the health insurance company BKK Provita spread. This also had the PEI in February 2022 assumes that too few cases of vaccination side effects are registered. But also The BKK Provita data does not support this accusation, as a fact check by the dpa clarifies. (As of: May 12, 2022) ## Links Post on Facebook (archived) Another post on Facebook (archived post; archived video) Post on Instagram (archived) dpa fact check on BKK VaccinationSurv project description (archived) VaccinationSurv survey (archived) Telegram post calling for study participation (archived) Interview on Focus.de (archived) Evaluation study in the “Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science” (archived) Pfizer/Biontech approval study (archived) Moderna pivotal study (archived) Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
A study by the Berlin Charité has shown that the number of serious complications after MRNA vaccinations against SarsCoV2 is forty times higher than recorded by the Paul Ehrlich Institute PEI