Did COVID vaccines save lives?

These claims were not published in peer-reviewed journals. If they had been peer reviewed, the reviewers would have flagged their interesting take on calculating vaccine effectiveness in preventing death. They begin their calculation with the premise of the “‘healthy vaccinee’ bias,” or the idea that “People who are not vaccinated are, on average, less healthy than their vaccinated counterparts, and therefore have higher mortality in general.” Contrary to this assumption, people with underlying health conditions are usually targeted to receive vaccines first.

It’s also of note that unvaccinated people somehow managed to experience the majority of those deaths during the peaks of COVID activity, as seen here.

Another mistaken assumption is thinking that all the deaths they see are because of the vaccine since they assume that only healthy people are getting vaccinated. But COVID itself contributed to the increase in all causes of death since it can cause damage even after the initial sickness, leading to deaths from heart attacks and strokes.