The Claim:
AÂ tweet links to a video interview to claim that the number of U.S. people killed in world wars is less than the number of people killed by COVID, vaccine deaths, and early treatment denial.
The Facts:
This isn’t the first tweet we’ve addressed from this self-described equity investment executive with no medical or public health background. In this particular claim, he states the obvious. Throughout history, plagues and pandemics have killed hundreds of millions of people, and there’s no question that the COVID pandemic caused far more deaths in our country than world wars. The number of United States deaths for all foreign wars is just over 680,000, compared to over 1.1 million deaths in our country due to COVID.
Of course, our tweeter does not stop at the obvious. He blames vaccines as well as the virus for the U.S. COVID death toll, but this claim is easily disproved. If vaccines were responsible for deaths during the pandemic, the communities with the highest vaccination rates would have a higher rate of deaths. However, data shows that the opposite is true. The communities with the highest vaccination rates had lower death rates than the communities with low vaccination rates.
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