Picture Doesn't Show Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Creator

Rania Omar

Health

9th December 2020

Picture Doesn't Show Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Creator

This is not Dr. Ugur Sahin(Screenshot).

The Claim

An image depicts the man that invented the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Emerging story

On November 29, 2020, a photo on Facebook and Twitter showing the founder of BioNTech started circulating. Users shared posted a picture claiming it’s a family of the vaccine founder. Users started circulating news that Ugur sahin in .the yellow t-shirt, discovered Pfizer's vaccine

The picture has been shared by official verified Twitter accounts and attracted thousands of users.

Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar's reverse image search found that the circulating picture is a photograph was clicked by photographer Candida Hofer. The photograph is part of a collection of images entitled "Türken in Deutschland" which shows families who immigrated to Germany from Turkey in the 1970s.

DiasporaTürk clarified that the “family is from Aksaray. The father came to Germany in 1965 as a worker... In 1975 he decided to bring his wife and four children to Düsseldorf.”

Bugün birçok yerde fotoğraftaki erkek çocuğunun Prof.Dr. Uğur Şahin olduğuyla ilgili paylaşımlar yapıldı.

Ailenin hikayesini daha önce paylaşmıştık. O çocuk büyüdü ve torna-tesviye ustası oldu. Bu onu kimseden daha az önemli yapmıyor. Ailenin anısına saygı duyulması ümidiyle... https://t.co/o7cMqwq37Q pic.twitter.com/DB4phsLn36
— DiasporaTürk (@diaspora_turk) November 17, 2020