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The claim: The first vaccine recipients in the UK are crisis actors
This week, Margaret Keenan a grandmother who turns 91 next week became the first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom.
She received the shot, produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, on Dec. 8 at University Hospital Coventry and said it was the best early birthday present, per USA TODAY.
But some skeptics have taken to the internet with allegations that Keenan is not who she claims and is actually a crisis actor.
An analysis by USA TODAY showed that in just 24 hours, over 475,000 Twitter users were potentially exposed to a single tweet that levied the allegation.
The Australian government has terminated its $1 billion deal with the University of Queensland (UQ) and global biotech company CSL s potential COVID-19 vaccine because trial participants returning false-positive HIV test results could have undermined public confidence.
The agreement to terminate the deal was made by the National Security Committee of Cabinet following expert health advice.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the UQ-CSL jab will not feature in Australia s vaccine plan.(Nine)
The Morrison government had agreed to purchase more than 50 million doses of the vaccine before the deal was abandoned.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed today the UQ-CSL jab would no longer feature as part of Australia s vaccine plan.