The Claim:
A Twitter champion is claiming that the continuation of excess deaths into 2022 can be attributed to vaccination.
The Facts:
Excess deaths during the COVID pandemic have far eclipsed those in the years prior to the pandemic. The tweet suggests several causes, including vaccines and the effects of lockdowns, without considering the possibility that maybe, just maybe, these excess deaths could be contributed to COVID itself. In the United States alone, there have been over 1 million deaths attributed to COVID, with the vast majority being in unvaccinated people.
This tweet offers no evidence that the vaccine is causing these deaths, conversely, studies show that people who received the COVID-19 vaccine actually had lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality than unvaccinated people did. So in the end, the vaccine appears to be protective against death both from COVID and non-COVID causes.
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