The CEO of BioNTech, a company that together with Pfizer developed and produces the most used anti-Covid vaccine, was vaccinated with his company's serum, despite some false information being distributed on social media about him and what he did. made.
At the end of 2020, the CEO of BioNTech refused to be vaccinated in front of doctors and employees in essential fields, when there was a shortage of doses, but at the beginning of 2021 he did it, and in the fall he was vaccinated including dose 3.
"Another basecony is taken over in the online environment. An old interview with the head of BioNTech is circulating online with the false claim that he "admitted not to be vaccinated".
A video was shared thousands of times in December 2021 in social media posts claiming to show the CEO of BioNTech, the company that developed a vaccine against Covid-19 with Pfizer, Uğur Şahin admitting that was not vaccinated against the disease.
Posts in Romanian began to circulate online while scientists were testing the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But the video was shared in a false context; shows an interview with Uğur Şahin from the end of 2020 in which he said that he will not cross the line of "priority" of vaccination. Şahin was vaccinated in early 2021, BioNTech told AFP. He also recently did the third dose.
“There has been misinformation on social media where it is assumed that I am not vaccinated. In fact, my wife and I both received 3 doses of the #BioNTech #Pfizer vaccine. For several months, friends have been urging me to post a photo of myself vaccinated to address these false rumors," Şahin said in his post."
