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Further down in the article is from “Turbo cancer” and 17 million deaths related to vaccination Speech. Are these statements proven? ## Evaluation The contract details have been available online for years. The EU has Fewer doses of the Corona vaccine from Biontech/Pfizer ordered than in Article claims. There are no alleged vaccination side effects Evidence. “Turbo cancer” is not a medical diagnosis or label. ## Facts The tweet on which the article is based comes from the German Internet Entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. With the data exchange Megaupload he became multiple millionaire. After an investigation by the US Federal Police FBI, she was Shut down in 2012. In his tweet on October 26, 2023, Dotcom claimed that a secret Agreement on the purchase of vaccines was leaked. He shared this the link to a document in the Internet Archive. Although this is the contract between Biontech/Pfizer and the EU, However, the document was not sent recently, but in the summer Uploaded to the site in 2021. Well-known contract details The sentences around which the article revolves are part of the template for the Treaties of the member states. It says that the vaccines after Delivery will be further examined. It will be in the document from the end of 2020 clarified that not all may be available at this time Side effects were known. Back then, Biontech was in the decisive phase III study on effectiveness already completed. The sentences quoted in the article have also been found elsewhere for a long time unredacted. For example, the document has been available on the site since the end of 2020 from the Czech Ministry of Health. Also on the According to the operator, it can be found on the Internet platform “FragDenStaat”. since April 2021. However, part of the document is on the European Commission's website blacked out - also the passage quoted in the article. At the request of the dpa the Commission explained that it “could not decide unilaterally to disclose confidential information from the contracts, unless the Companies themselves agree with this.” Vaccine doses and costs The article states that the contract revolves around 5.4 billion vaccine doses the EU ordered for around 100 billion euros. It can be found in the contract However, neither is the number of total vaccine doses purchased by Biontech/Pfizer nor the price that the EU has to pay for it. A Google search leads only to results that, according to the search engine, “may not be any provide reliable information”. According to the EU, a total of 2.4 billion doses of the corona virus have been delivered so far. Vaccine ordered from Biontech/Pfizer, with the option of a further 900 Million doses. Accordingly, around 760 million doses had been delivered by the beginning of September distributed to the member states. False claims about vaccination The article makes further claims about the vaccine that are wrong. It is said that there are 17 million in connection with the vaccination deaths occurred. But there is no proof of this. Also the warning before an alleged “turbo cancer” is misleading. (As of: November 15, 2023) ## Links Articles with false claims (archived) Post by @KimDotcom (archived) Archived contract Document on the EU Commission website (archived) Document at FragDenStaat (archived) Document on the website of the Czech Ministry of Health (archived) Text on the website of the organization Hlídač Státu (archived) EU Vaccines Strategy (archived) PM Biontech (archived) dpa fact check “Experts dismantle claims about vaccination deaths” dpa fact check «\"Turbo cancer\" is not a medical term» Google search results “5.4 billion vaccine doses” (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. 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Details of the contract with Pfizer only became public in autumn 2023 There are 17 million deaths and turbo cancer as a result of vaccination