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| - Fact Check: NO links to Covid-19 vaccine! This video of bus driver getting heart attack is from 2012
This viral video featuring a bus driver losing consciousness behind the wheels is almost a decade older than the Covid-19 vaccines themselves.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from a 2012 incident and has no links to Covid-19 vaccines.
“School bus driver suffers heart attack and 13-year-old gets behind the wheel and saves all children's lives,” read a tweet containing a terrifying video of an incapacitated driver behind the wheels of a school bus. This video, which has been making the rounds on social media, shows a bus driver flailing his arms in his seat as one of the kids on the bus bravely manages to get hold of the wheel.
While some praised the heroic instincts of the child, others blamed the Covid-19 vaccines for the accident. A person shared the video writing, “It is dangerous to get on buses, trains and air planes post vaccine era.” Another, taking a jab at vaccines, wrote, “Hopefully he was injected then he doesn't die of corona.” Archives of similar posts can be found here, here, and here.
India Today, in its investigation, found that this video is more than a decade old, thus ruling out any links between the accident and the Covid-19 vaccines.
Our Probe
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to its extended version of the clip shared on the YouTube channel of the Associated Press. According to the date stamp present at the top of this footage, the accident took place on April 9, 2012. The video description stated that a seventh grader steered this school bus towards the side of the road after the driver lost consciousness in Washington, US.
In the full video, the kid stops the bus with the help of another boy following which two adults board to help. The video also contained an interview of the boy, Jeremy Wuitschic, in which he explains how he turned off the ignition as the driver appeared to be having a seizure.
We also found a report by the Guardian about this accident. According to it, 13-year-old Jeremy got behind the wheels of a bus, carrying a dozen kids to school, after its driver experienced a heart attack. His classmate, Johnny Wood, also went on to help by giving the stricken driver chest compressions. The bus was pulling into Surprise Lake Middle School in Milton, about 30 miles south of Seattle.
The driver, Ryan Callis, reportedly died at the hospital where he was rushed after collapsing. Several media outlets interviewed the “bus heroes” at the time regarding this accident.
Thus, it’s clear that the video of a 2012 accident is being shared as a recent incident to further the agenda against Covid-19 vaccines.
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