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    Photos: German bakery creates COVID-19 syringe cakes

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    Photos: German bakery creates COVID-19 syringe cakes

    There is no evidence that the cake will do anything to protect buyers from the coronavirus


    Published:  January 08, 2021 20:29 Reuters  and  Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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    Berlin: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down at a bakery in the western German town of Dortmund, which is celebrating the year of the coronavirus vaccine with syringe-shaped cakes. Image Credit: Reuters
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    It is not the first time Schuerner's Baking Paradise has sold coronavirus spin-offs: last year, as household essentials vanished from supermarket shelves in panic buying, they created cakes shaped like newly-scarce toilet-rolls. Image Credit: Reuters
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    With vaccination now under way in most of the world, public health officials fret that nervousness about new medicines will slow the uptake of vaccines designed to end a pandemic that has claimed some 2 million lives and devastated the global economy. Image Credit: Reuters
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    "First we were a bit sceptical whether it would be a bit too macabre," he said. Image Credit: Reuters
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    "But then we did it after all. Because even for anti-vaxxers it's funny. It is a vaccine without any side effects. And you can come back and get another one because it is so yummy." Image Credit: Reuters
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    There is no evidence that this cake, flavoured with marzipan, will do anything to protect buyers from the coronavirus. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Indeed, given the correlation between excess weight and serious cases of the disease, it may do just the opposite. Image Credit: Reuters
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    But nobody eats cakes for health reasons. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Cakes in the shape of syringes are seen at the Schuerener Backparadies bakery. Image Credit: Reuters
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