FULL CLAIM: “This really is incredible, I mean if I'd known about this graph and these high rates of potential side effects, one in 20 vaccines given, come on, you know, is there any way I would have accepted that vaccine? Emphatically not.”; “Why did the regulatory authorities let us down completely fail you and me on this ongoing post-marketing surveillance that we were promised, it hasn’t happened”; “You would usually expect that if the batches were the same quality [...] you would expect more or less [...] the same amount of side effects, you know, maybe a little difference but this is like a huge difference between the batches and so you know it's a safety signal really”; “We know that [the COVID-19 vaccine] didn't do anything to transmission”
On 5 July 2023, YouTuber and retired nurse instructor John Campbell published a YouTube video regarding findings published in a research letter by Schmeling et al. in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. In the video, which received more than 480,000 views, Campbell implied that COVID-19 vaccines were unsafe, citing the number of adverse events reported in the letter.
A day later, he published an interview with physician Vibeke Manniche, who co-authored the research letter. During the interview, Manniche claimed that their findings constituted a “safety signal”.
Regarded as an evidence-based source of information about COVID-19 in 2020, Campbell—who has accrued nearly three million followers on YouTube to date—has...
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