The Claim:
In the world of misinformation, up is down, the Grinch is Santa, and the sky is crisscrossed with chemtrails. On that Earth, the vaccine caused 120,000Â excess deaths in children. And you were dubious.
The Facts:
The overall claim is based on data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC) and their table of excess deaths for people under the age of 45 from 2020-2023. The dataset doesn’t include the type of death.
Excess deaths refers to the difference between the expected number of deaths and the actual number of deaths in a specific time period and includes all deaths from all causes. The specific claim that almost 120,000 of these deaths are sudden deaths due to the COVID vaccine is completely unfounded, and they offer no evidence to back up this claim. Rather, the CDC indicates that many of these excess deaths are due to COVID infection itself.
If this claim were true to any degree, we would expect more deaths in areas with higher vaccination rates. However, higher excess deaths were seen in areas with lower vaccination rates.
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