Are COVID vaccines deadly?

Steve Kirsch uses illegally acquired data from New Zealand to support his claim that the COVID vaccine has killed 10 million people worldwide. The dataset he used was from the pay-per-dose program and represented 4 out of 12 million doses administered in the country.

The claim is based on the observation that mortality increased after the shot for those over 60. The observation didn’t look at health information, cause of death, or anything other than death after the shot. It estimates 1 death in 1000. What he doesn’t know is if those in his dataset are a random sampling of everyone who received the vaccine or a sampling of a more vulnerable population. Because we do not know much about the dataset, it is impossible to make any accurate estimates of the death rate from the vaccine.

He claims nobody can find anything wrong with his analysis, even citing David Gorski, yet Dr. Gorski had plenty to say on his analysis, also pointing out “When you see a nonexpert analyze a dataset using methods that no expert uses to analyze the same type of dataset, be suspicious.” He also points out that “there are other major deficiencies in the dataset” including the fact that there is no baseline death rate in an unvaccinated group.

As for comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children, Kirsch outlines his claims in testimony to the Pennsylvania State Senate, where he cites two studies. One has been retracted, and the other was the result of an online survey whose participants are subject to reporting bias, recall bias, and self-selection bias.