evidence: The article containing this claim was published on 25 April 2020 and quickly went viral, receiving more than 2.3 million views within two days. It claims that the first volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in the United Kingdom, Oxford microbiologist Elisa Granato, died "two days after the vaccine was administered", and further claimed that "four other volunteer[s] are said to be battling complications due to adverse reactions of the vaccine", without providing any supporting evidence. The spread of this article has been promoted by groups opposing vaccination as well as groups promoting conspiracy theories. These claims are false. In fact, Granato had tweeted several hours after her supposed demise, as reported by this Guardian article, which established that Granato is alive and well. The U.K. Department of Health and Social Care also publicly refuted the claim on Twitter, stating that "News circulating on social media that the first volunteer in a UK #coronavirus vaccine trial has died is completely untrue." BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh also confirmed that Granato is "very much alive" in a tweet and a video posted on 26 April 2020.