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Sudden deaths

The Claim:

A new documentary film is claiming that all the sudden deaths that have happened in the last two years are due to COVID vaccines.

The Facts:

We were curious about the term “died suddenly” before COVID-19, so we made a video (posted on facebook) showing that people did, in fact, die suddenly before 2019. One article we found, from 2008, discussed the problem of silent, undetected heart disease in young athletes.

The crux of the film is that COVID vaccines are due to undetected blood clots. Make no mistake, images of the blood clots are meant to invoke disgust that short-circuits our rational thoughts. It’s important to know that embalmers are not qualified to conduct autopsies. Furthermore, the blood clots showcased in the film may be due to refrigeration of the bodies or the presence of formaldehyde due to embalming.

But The Real Truther has been digging into many of these cases, one by one. They are not standing up to scrutiny:

  • The wife of one mortician interviewed in the film states that there is no truth to anything her husband says in the film
  • Several of the deaths highlighted in the film occurred before people were able to get the vaccines
    • A teenager who died in April 2021, before the vaccine had been approved for teens
    • A UK teenager died from myocarditis caused by COVID infection and had been scheduled to receive a vaccine she never had
    • A college basketball player who didn’t die after collapsing in a game in 2020, before any vaccine existed

This film relies on multiple layers of misinformation: the scary story, the false expert, and the appeal to disgust. There will be future misinformers who do the same thing, so it is important for us to educate the public about how misinformation works.

Disclaimer: Science is always evolving and our understanding of these topics may have evolved too since this was originally posted. Be sure to check out our most recent posts and browse the latest Just the Facts Topics for the latest.

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