An eight-year-old boy used as a “showcase child” in Israel’s national COVID-19 vaccine rollout has died following a heart attack and subsequently drowning while taking a bath.
Yonatan Moshe Erlichman was rushed to hospital in a “serious condition” after suffering the cardiac arrest but died several days later on September 28th.
“Our Yonatan Moshe passed away a short time ago. On the eve of Yom Kippur, Yonatan went into cardiac arrest in our home, and since then we have struggled by his side after he collapsed. With love, we thank all those dear to us, who were by our side during the last days of his life,” his family said in a statement following the incident.
Erlichman, then aged five, first appeared in a video produced by the Math Binyamin regional council in 2020 to “educate” children about the COVID-19 vaccine in an Israel government-funded program known as “Shushki in the Land on Binyamin.”
יונתן ארליכמן ז"ל בן 8 מת מדום לב 😥😥😥
לא מזעזע אתכם ? היכן הכותרות ? החקירות? כמה ילדים עוד ימותו על מזבח הזהב?
ובייחוד שיש כבר שני מחקרים מבוקרים המעידים כי חיסוני ה mRNA גורמים לבעיות לבביות. עד מתי תתחפרו ? כמה עוד תכחישו?
תזכרו שבכל רגע נתון זה יכול לקרות לילדיכם… pic.twitter.com/PUYlLN4jDr— א.בלב Avishag Balev (@AvishagBalev) October 1, 2023
Yonatan is not the first vaccine poster child to have unexpectedly died after Santinio Godoy Blanco, a four-year-old boy from Argentina, lost his life to “bilateral pneumonia” last year.
One recent study found that the COVID-19 vaccine reprograms a child’s immune system for up to six months after vaccination, which impacts the body’s ability to combat other dangerous pathogens.
