{"id":864,"date":"2020-04-27T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:29:54","slug":"im-very-fine-uk-covid-19-vaccine-trial-volunteer-elisa-granato-says-after-online-death-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/im-very-fine-uk-covid-19-vaccine-trial-volunteer-elisa-granato-says-after-online-death-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m very fine’, UK Covid-19 vaccine trial volunteer, Elisa Granato, says after online death rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fake article about her death was circulated on social media, one of the first people injected as part of UK human trials for a coronavirus vaccine has said she is \u201cdoing fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article claims that microbiologist Dr Elisa Granato, who took part in the Thursday trial of the vaccine in Oxford, had died following complications after she got vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Following the death rumours, the government later said the article was \u201ccompletely untrue\u201d, and warned people about sharing unsubstantiated claims online, the Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Granato was one of two people to take part in the trial, and said she was excited to support the efforts by volunteering.<\/p>\n

Following the article about her \u201cdeath\u201d, she tweeted about the news before making her Twitter account private. She wrote: \u201cNothing like waking up to a fake article on your death … I\u2019m doing fine everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fake news has been circulating on social media that the first volunteer in the Oxford vaccine trial has died. This is not true! I spent several minutes this morning chatting with Elisa Granato via Skype. She is very much alive and told me she is feeling \u201cabsolutely fine\u201d pic.twitter.com\/iWAtYaSkRZ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Fergus Walsh (@BBCFergusWalsh) April 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n