In an interview between Ed Dowd and Brent Weinstein, they claim that about 5 billion people worldwide got a COVID vaccine, with estimates suggesting that between 7.3 million and 15 million may have died from it, 29 to 60 million may have become disabled, and between 500 million and 900 million experienced non-disabling injuries.

The claims of millions of deaths, disabilities, and injuries are not supported by credible scientific evidence and rely on misinterpreted data, unsupported assumptions, and flawed methodologies.

The claim of 7.3 million to 15 million deaths from COVID vaccines is unsubstantiated and far higher than any reputable global health data suggests. The European Medicines Agency reports 11,448 people have died after receiving COVID vaccines but notes that no one has established that vaccines were the cause of those deaths. Even if they were, 11 thousand is far fewer than millions. Extensive safety monitoring by agencies like the CDC, FDA, WHO, and EMA shows that serious adverse events, including death, are extremely rare and predominantly unrelated to the vaccine itself. Vaccination prevents death; as one article reported after the first year of COVID vaccination, more than 14 million deaths were prevented by the vaccine.

Dowd uses arbitrary ratios to estimate vaccine-caused disabilities. In reality, the vast majority of people vaccinated experience no long-term effects, and the safety data have not shown any widespread disability linked to the COVID vaccines. The claim of 29 to 60 million people disabled lacks any foundation in actual medical evidence or epidemiological research.

The figures given for vaccine-related injuries are also highly exaggerated. While mild side effects (like sore arms, fever, or fatigue) are common, these are short-lived and not considered injuries. Serious adverse reactions are rare and are carefully tracked, studied, and addressed by health authorities. No scientific body reports injuries on the scale suggested.

COVID vaccines are overwhelmingly safe and have saved millions of lives. The data from multiple countries and scientific reviews consistently confirm that severe adverse effects are extremely rare, while the benefits of vaccination in reducing severe illness and death are well-documented and substantial.

A father claims his son developed severe regressive autism after a Tennessee judge ordered 18 vaccinations in one day during a custody battle, which he believes led to lifelong health challenges and hardships for the family.

The claim that a large number of vaccines suddenly caused autism goes against the best research on autism’s genetic roots. Studies show that autism is mostly genetic and often starts before birth, during early brain development in the womb. The brain differences seen in autism are usually there before birth and don’t appear suddenly because of things like vaccines. This supports research suggesting that autism’s main causes happen well before a baby is born.

Large-scale studies from global health authorities, including the CDC, WHO, and various peer-reviewed sources, have repeatedly shown no causal link between vaccines and autism.

The father claims that doctors at Vanderbilt University said his son Isaac’s autism was caused by being forced to get many vaccines. But if people like RFK Jr. at the Children’s Health Defense group say vaccines often cause autism this way, it’s important to ask why one doctor also told the father she’s only seen one other child with symptoms like Isaac’s. This suggests that cases like Isaac’s are extremely rare, which goes against the idea that vaccines commonly cause autism.

One more thing to note: regressive autism isn’t autism you develop; the diagnosis of regressive autism is given to someone who was always autistic but loses skills, such as speech, as they grow older.

Former radiologist William Makis claims that we will see a “tsunami” of cancer cases among children in the next 5-10 years due to COVID vaccines. He cites a tweet that claims FDA documents support these assertions.

It’s important to check the sources you find and not take them at face value. First, the tweet offers only screenshots and no links. But we found the links.

The source, it turns out, is a slide deck that discusses vaccine monitoring. Those same slides explain that one of the limitations of these monitoring programs is that they cannot tell us whether or not a vaccine was a cause of the reported adverse events.

The other source is from here, a 2006 document (long before mRNA vaccines were available) specifically talking about gene therapy. As the document isn’t about mRNA COVID vaccines, and mRNA vaccines are NOT gene therapy, he may as well have posted a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, as neither has anything to do with the subject at hand.