Speaker 1: This is a crazy story out of Australia.
We have we have quite a quite a few viewers in Australia.
In fact, it's one of our outside of the U.S..
I mean, it makes sense.
It's a lot of English speaking countries Canada, the UK and Australia, where we have some of
the biggest audiences and close to 10 people sent me this story about Australian anti-vaxxers
completely fabricating the death of a boy from Sydney, Australia, supposedly from the
COVID vaccine.
It turns out it was completely made up.
This is being reported by seven news in Australia, as well as a number of other media outlets.
A distraught Sydney father has shared how his beautiful seven year old boy died in the
back of an ambulance days after being vaccinated against COVID, but authorities say it's a
hoax.
In a lengthy Facebook comment, Steve Leary claimed his son Lachlan received his first
vaccine dose on Wednesday.
Is that a popular Australian name?
Because this isn't one of Rupert Murdoch's kids also named Lachlan.
Lachlan received his first dose on January 12th, experienced a fever and difficulty difficulty
breathing shortly after he claims he took his son to Westmead Hospital, where they ran
tests and after five hours sent him home.
Friday morning at four a.m.
We heard him yell out he was on his bedroom floor.
He then collapsed.
He was not breathing, wrote the father.
He claims his son died of a massive heart attack and warns other parents not to vaccinate.
The government has ruined my family.
They have taken away our only son.
I mean this.
This is tragic, if true.
The post quickly gathered pace online, collecting thousands of likes, comments and shares before
the profile was taken down and the post reshared as a screenshot.
But it's believed to be the latest case of misinformation running rife, a deliberate
attempt to discourage parents booking in to get their children vaccinated.
Less than a week after five to 11 year olds became eligible for COVID vaccines in Australia,
there is no record of a Lachlan Leary who died in Sydney last week or indeed at all.
NSW Health told 7NEWS it quote has not been able to locate any record of such incident
and the therapeutic goods at.
Ministration, which collates all adverse events associated with vaccines, also rubbished the
claim.
In a statesman statement, a spokesperson stressed it has not received any adverse event reports
involving the death of any children between five and 11.
The Children's Hospital at Westmead also refuted the reports in writing, saying there are many
inaccurate posts currently circulating on social media.
There is no record of any child having passed away following COVID vaccination at our hospital.
There are also questions surrounding the validity of Mr Leary's profile.
News of the death pictured Leary, a man who lives in the United States and served as the
mayor of Winter Park, a small town in Florida.
This is this is this is really immoral, and everything we believe now indicates that this
is merely a hoax meant to dissuade parents from going and getting their kids vaccinated
against COVID.
We are fortunately seeing the decline of a micron now in the United States cases down
about 21 percent as of this morning.
We are seeing a leveling out globally.
Many individual states in the U.S. are down significantly, but.
One of the groups that is most getting seriously ill on a rate basis is the very young, most
of whom have not yet been vaccinated.
And this is again, it's another opportunity to move to the endemic phase.
It endemic doesn't mean no risk.
But it means something different than pandemic.
We have an opportunity.
Part of it is getting as many people protected from getting seriously ill.
You might catch it, but you're much less likely to be seriously ill.
Five to 11 year olds are part of that.
And this appears to be an out and out complete and total hoax.
And I hope that at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, this reminds people when you
hear about Veirs reports where tens of thousands of reports about kids dead from the vaccine.
Those reports are completely unverified.
Anybody can go and submit a report to Veirs.
Now people will write and they'll say, David, it's a crime to do that.
Is anybody getting prosecuted for that?
Have you heard of anybody being prosecuted for submitting a false report to Veirs that
is not dissuading people from doing it?
They are weaponizing the Veirs report, which is the vaccine adverse effects reporting system.
I assume the Asa's system, so an incredibly pernicious moment.
And I am not advocating one way or the other.
Australia has different laws than the United States.
It remains to be seen whether this individual may face some kind of penalty.
Of course, if he really lives in the United States, it's not really clear that anything
would apply.
But we're going to follow the story.
That's everything we know right now, and we will have a link to the story and more information
on our Instagram, which you can find at David Pakman show.
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