Social media posts falsely claim old video shows Covid-19 vaccine side effects

The video was shared here on South Korean social media platform Naver Band on January 13, 2021.

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Screenshot of the misleading Naver Band post taken on February 8, 2021.

The Korean-language caption claims the video shows “the condition of a teenager after the Covid-19 vaccination.”

“She is experiencing a convulsion and severe dyspnoea,” it reads in part. “She is unconscious and has a seizure every 20 seconds.”

The video was also shared alongside similar claims on Facebook here and Naver Blog here.

However, the claim is false. 

A reverse Google image search found that the footage was published on YouTube here on March 21, 2015, nearly five years before the Covid-19 pandemic began.

Below is a screenshot comparison between the video shared in the misleading posts (L) and the video published on YouTube in 2015 (R):

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A screenshot comparison between the video shared in the misleading posts (L) and the video published on YouTube in 2015 (R).

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) also reported on the video here on March 20, 2015. The Russian-language article, which features screenshots from the footage, states that the video shows a girl in the Kazakh city of Zhanaozen who was admitted to a hospital after getting vaccinated against measles.

Citing a local health official, RFE/RL reported that the video was filmed in March 2015. The official added that the health authorities did not attribute her condition to the vaccine, RFE/RL reported.