On 24 April 2026, in the early afternoon, Germany’s Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) — the federal agency for vaccines and biomedical medicines — posts from its official X account @PEI_Germany a card marking the end of European Immunisation Week. On the card: a cartoon family — mother, child, teenager, adult, elderly woman, male nurse in headscarf. Above it, in friendly green, with an exclamation mark:
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].
In December 2020, Germany’s Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) launched the SafeVac 2.0 smartphone app. More than 700,000 people used it to report adverse reactions following COVID-19 vaccination. It was the largest vaccine safety study Germany had ever conducted.
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].
What If Everything Is Connected? A Source-Based Reconstruction of the Chain of Events 2018–2027 # Note: This article formulates a hypothesis. Every single source is verifiable. The connections drawn between the facts are interpretation. The reader should think for themselves — not be led.
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.
