The vaccination rate among over-60s for the flu shot is, according to the RKI, at its lowest level in 17 years [1]. The COVID-19 vaccination rate in this age group has fallen by more than a third compared to the previous season [2]. At the same time, data from Denmark show that different BioNTech batches showed different adverse-event rates — a study that the PEI dismissed as “not meaningful” without presenting its own data [3].
On 24 October 2021, Stefan Oelrich stood on the stage of the World Health Summit in Berlin. Bayer AG board member, head of the pharmaceutical division. Right in front of him: Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen [1].
On March 24, 2026, Donald Trump posted that he was pausing strikes on Iranian power plants. Minutes before: $580 million in oil futures, opposite bets on stock futures — simultaneously, with no public trigger.
Nikola Brindley had been a dental nurse for over a decade. She knew vaccines. When she was asked to take AstraZeneca’s COVID jab in July 2021, she agreed without hesitation. Within hours, she was in A&E. Multiple organ systems began to fail. “I collapsed on the doorway and pretty much lost the ability to walk,” she recalls. Today, she uses a wheelchair.
The Danish data shows what should never have happened: Identical product, completely different outcomes. Some batches cause illness. Some do — nothing at all. # In December 2025, Hamburg mathematics professor Hans-Juergen Bandelt published the first part of a three-part analysis on tkp.at. His starting point: the Danish study by Schmeling and Manniche, peer-reviewed and published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation in 2023 [1]. His finding: More than 30% of BioNTech batches were practically ineffective — and the PEI knew it [2][3][4].
No monitoring, no data, no consequences — but the vaccines were of course “safe and effective.”
It is one of the biggest scandals in Germany’s postwar history — and hardly anyone is talking about it. BioNTech, the Mainz-based company celebrated as the hero of the pandemic, positioned itself legally so that it is formally not even a vaccine manufacturer. And the authority responsible for monitoring vaccine safety — the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) — failed to evaluate the legally mandated data for years.
