
Yes, Dr. Helmut Sterz (former chief toxicologist at Pfizer Europe until ~2008) did make that estimate. In his March 19, 2026 testimony to Germany's Bundestag Corona Enquête Commission, he cited 2,133 deaths reported to the Paul Ehrlich Institute after Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination. He applied a US VAERS-style underreporting factor of 30 to arrive at ~20,000–60,000 potential vaccine-linked deaths in Germany. Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach rejected the claims as false during the hearing. The figure is Sterz's extrapolation based on reported (not proven causal) data; official German and EU pharmacovigilance reports do not confirm it.

























