Did the COVID-19 vaccine lead to massive deaths?

This paper was initially uploaded as a preprint in the Lancet in July 2023 and subsequently removed because “the study’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology.”

The authors, who include famed anti-vaxxers William Makis and Peter McCullough, identified 134 studies, of which 44 met their inclusion criterion. Then, three physicians reviewed all the cases and determined that 240 cases (about 74%) were directly or significantly attributed to COVID vaccination.

Their conclusion about the deaths, most of them occurring within one week following vaccination, “were attributable to fatal vaccine injury syndrome,” even though this study was a review of other published studies. One study, from which a majority of the data was taken, concluded that “no relation between the cause of death and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 was found.”

One death that all three physicians said was caused by the vaccine was that of an 83-year-old man who had been diagnosed with COVID 18 days prior to his death. Similarly, a 19-year-old man’s death was attributed to the vaccine he received 6 months prior to his death and not the COVID infection he had 17 days prior to his death. In the days leading up to his death, this young man also had seizures due to suspected multiple sclerosis that was confirmed in his autopsy but not diagnosed.

The study claims that “circulating Spike protein is likely the harmful mechanism through which COVID-19 vaccines cause side effects.” However, it also says the most commonly used COVID-19 vaccine was Sinovax, which is an inactivated virus. This means there was no free circulating Spike protein, unlike mRNA vaccines. What circulates in the body is similar to the COVID virus but inactive and unable to infect cells.

In the end, more than half of the nine authors are affiliated with The Wellness Company, which sells supplements it claims combat vaccine injury. This paper isn’t research; it’s a marketing scheme.