Israeli Officials Were Warned to Present COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Data Carefully to Avoid Lawsuits

Israeli Officials Were Warned to Present COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Data Carefully to Avoid Lawsuits
A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Jan. 3, 2022. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Meiling Lee
By Zachary Stieber, Senior Reporter and Meiling Lee
Updated:

An expert hired by Israel’s government to help analyze COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports warned officials in a closed-door meeting to carefully present the data to the public because of litigation concerns, according to leaked video of the meeting.

Dr. Mati Berkovitch, the expert, said that the phenomenon of rechallenge found by the team turned causal links between the events and Pfizer’s vaccine “from possible to definitive,” according to the video, which was reviewed by The Epoch Times.

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