Did COVID vaccines cause more deaths than wars?

Peter McCullough’s group is now saying they have proof that COVID vaccines have killed more people than World War I and World War II.

• This study compares recipients of Pfizer and Moderna without an unvaccinated group.
• Deaths after vaccination do not prove vaccines caused them.
• A large French study found fewer COVID deaths and no higher overall death risk among vaccinated adults.

McCullough’s staff claims things about this study that it does not claim.

The study compares death rates among people who received Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines. It looks at all-cause mortality, which means deaths from any cause, including illness, accidents, and old age. Counting these deaths does not tell us whether a vaccine caused them.

The study does not include a group of unvaccinated people for comparison. That means it cannot tell us whether either vaccinated group had a higher or lower death rate than people who were not vaccinated.

Other research has made that comparison. A large study in France followed about 28 million adults ages 18 to 59. Vaccinated adults had a lower risk of dying from severe COVID and no higher risk of death overall during follow-up.

The comparison described in the video does not show that vaccines killed millions of people. A difference between the Pfizer and Moderna groups could have several causes, including differences in protection against COVID, age, or health. The comparison alone cannot tell us why their death rates differed.