The Claim:
A new rumor goes that by looking at excess deaths before, during, and since the pandemic, you can prove that COVID vaccines have never saved a single life. It goes on to claim that the vaccine actually caused 17 million deaths.
The Facts:
Straight from the author who claims that all-cause mortality during COVID was not from a “plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response” comes a new report that attempts to link all-cause mortality to the COVID vaccine. He ignores the idea of COVID itself causing death because he just doesn’t believe COVID causes death.
The claims rely on graphs to show that vaccine rollout corresponds to spikes in all-cause mortality, but he makes a mistake by using the one-year rolling average as a proxy for all-cause mortality. A one-year rolling average wouldn’t show the full impact of the pandemic for up to a year, as the rolling average includes deaths from pre-pandemic times.
To find where you see the vaccine rollout, you would have to check the graph up to a year later. At that point, you could see the impact of vaccination on all-cause mortality. Interestingly, the all-cause mortality dips significantly at that point on his graph.
Many studies show lower rates of mortality in those who are vaccinated for COVID than in those who are not vaccinated.