The claim: A 2-year-old girl in Virginia died after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during clinical trials
As pharmaceutical companies test vaccine effectiveness in adolescents and children, a post has surfaced on social media claiming a 2-year-old girl in Virginia died after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize the Pfizer vaccine for adolescents ages 12-15 by mid-May, but studies for children ages 6 months to 11 years are still underway.
The claim originated in an article April 30 from Natural News shared as a screen grab to Facebook on May 1 and headlined, “Two-year-old baby DIES during Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine experiments on children.”
Here are the latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Tompkins County as of May 3:
How many people in Tompkins County have received a COVID-19 vaccine?
60% of people in Tompkins County have received at least one dose of the vaccine, for a total of 62,034 people
45% of people in Tompkins County are fully vaccinated, for a total of 46,796 people
For a county-by-county look at the vaccination rollout, see our COVID-19 vaccine tracker, which is updated daily.
How many people in New York have been vaccinated so far?
48% of people in New York have received at least one dose of the vaccine, for a total of 9,424,141 people
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