Norway’s top covid vaccine official dies suddenly after battling rare illness

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Are Stuwitz Berg, a respected pediatrician and senior official at Norway’s Institute of Public Health, who led the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination roll out, has died suddenly at just 54 years old

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Are passed away from me/us on Sunday, July 6, at the age of 53. After three quarters of a year with a rare disease [subtracting nine months from early July, Stuwitz Berg got the bad news at about the same he admitted that ‘mRNA vaccines can cause rare but more serious side effects’ in early October 2024], he and the doctors had to give up.

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Berg served as chief physician and department director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), where he oversaw infection control and vaccination efforts during the pandemic. He also became a famous face in Norway for his frequent TV appearances reassuring the public about the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines—particularly as Norway rolled out mass immunization campaigns in 2021 and 2022.

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