Australian GP receives death threats from 'anti-vaxxers' after false claim of child vaccine deaths

A Facebook page purporting to be a 'personal eyewitness account' wrongly claimed two girls had suffered 'violent convulsions' and later died in the waiting room after getting the Pfizer vaccine.

The backlash ultimately forced the clinic to pull out of the vaccine rollout of five to 11-year-olds after Chin and his colleagues received death threats. File Picture: Christian Charisius/dpa via AP

An Australian doctor has been subjected to death threats and abuse and is living in “utter fear” of anti-vaxxers after false reports two children died in his clinic after being administered the Pfizer vaccine.

Police have been notified after, Dr Wilson Chin, a GP in Pacific Pines in Australia's Gold Coast said “widespread panic” swept through his community after false reports spread online that two children had died in his clinic after being administered the Pfizer vaccine.