Margaret Keenan received the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech on December 8.

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  • Margaret Keenan, 90, was the first Briton to receive the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday.

  • Internet users question this information, holding up a screenshot from Google, where Margaret Keenan appears to appear in a CNN article dated October 22.

  • The CNN article was not about this vaccination, but features a video carousel, which has been updated with a video featuring the vaccination.

“The best anticipated birthday present.

Margaret Keenan, 90, was the first Briton to receive the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech against Covid-19 on Tuesday.

The gesture was filmed and photographed.

Still, netizens are questioning its validity, brandishing a Google screenshot, where Margaret Keenan appears to appear in a CNN article dated October 22.

"We are really taken for idiots," denounces a user in comment.

This message is relayed on social networks.

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The Briton was vaccinated on December 8 and was released from the hospital the next day.

The CNN article relayed in the viral publication, published on October 22 and still available online, dealt with a report on the management of the Covid-19 crisis by the Trump administration.

Other news sites have devoted articles to the findings of this report.

If Margaret Keenan appeared in the article preview on Google, it was because of the presence of a video carousel in the CNN article.

This carousel is updated with the most recent videos.

Margaret Keenan's vaccination appears in a video dedicated to William Shakespeare (that's his name), the second Briton to have received the vaccine.

This same carousel can be found in other CNN articles.

The same video was thus placed in another article also dated 22 October.

Other Internet users are also surprised to see that the same nurse vaccinated William Shakespeare, claiming that the two were not vaccinated in the same place.

Both were, however, vaccinated at the same hospital in Coventry, central England.

Priority people

This vaccination campaign in the United Kingdom targets first residents and staff of nursing homes, then caregivers and people over 80 years old.

The opinion of the European Medicines Agency on the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is expected by the end of the month.

In this perspective, the poison about vaccination is increasing.

A manipulated screenshot of an Australian minister receiving a flu vaccine has resurfaced on social networks, while a video of an American props is hijacked to cast doubt on the vaccination of public figures.

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