“The COVID World” says that due to his age and the requests of the family, they pulled the story. Yet they say they stand by the story and write:
“However, out of respect for Sean’s family and out of an abundance of sympathy, particularly given his age, we’ve made the difficult decision to pull our reporting.”
Sounds like a “fake but accurate” explanation.
Of course, they are still running an unsourced story about a 16-year old girl, Mélanie Macip - see https://thecovidworld.com/melanie-macip-16-year-old-girl-suffers-cardiac-arrest-shortly-after-receiving-the-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-dies-1-month-later/ - and claim her death was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine, yet provide no proof to back up that claim.
What they do provide is this disclaimer at the bottom of the article about Mélanie Macip, which states in part:
“We do not claim with certainty that any particular death or injury described on this website is attributable to COVID-19 vaccines”.
There’s ways to confirm the story. Unfortunately, “The COVID World” failed in their efforts. Because they apparently never tried.
Stories with no reporter byline. Contact info only by email. Disclaimers to their reporting.
What a bunch of pathetic hacks.
You should provide the entire statement:
Dear visitor,
After fierce internal debate among our staff, and after engaging in correspondence with the family of Sean, we’ve decided to issue a retraction of the article that we posted on his tragic passing. We do and will continue to stand by the reporting that we gave. We carefully vetted the facts of this tragedy, and we stand by them. However, out of respect for Sean’s family and out of an abundance of sympathy, particularly given his age, we’ve made the difficult decision to pull our reporting. We respect the wishes of Sean’s family. Please consider donating to his GoFundMe which you can find here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sean-hartman
We pride ourselves on reporting only facts, to the best of our ability. If we ever post something in error, we will own it and apologize accordingly. That’s not the case in this instance.
Thank you for your understanding.
The COVID World
https://thecovidworld.com/sean-hartman-17-article-retracted/