The Claim:
A very, very, very long tweet citing a long video claims to reveal statistics about the harm from COVID vaccines in the U.S.: 26.6 million people injured, 300,000 people dead, and $150 billion in lost work time.
The Facts:
The tweet is based on a project staffed by a computer scientist and finance experts.
If vaccines were responsible for all these deaths during the pandemic, the
To come up with the injury statistic, the project incorrectly analyzes V-Safe data, which actually shows that over 90% of side effects were non-serious, short-acting, and self-resolving. It also relies on the infamous Florida paper, which also incorrectly analyzed data, this time from clinical trials.
It makes a number of other incorrect assumptions. For example, it claims “the emergence of milder and more contagious virus strains such as Omicron, it is difficult to argue if COVID-19 had a significant role in excess mortality.” Omicron, however, is far from benign and was associated with a large number of deaths.
COVID infection, however, has been responsible for over 1.1 million deaths and 6.1 million hospitalizations up to 7.7 million cases of long COVID, with a cost of over $160 billion.
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