copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-10-04): The report claims that "millions have died from COVID injections" around the world, and includes narratives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and Brazil to back up this claim. [...] More than 390 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the U.S., with 55.6% of Americans fully vaccinated. CDC spokesperson Martha Sharan said the FDA requires health care providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear if the vaccine was the cause. The CDC states that VAERS has received 8,164 reports of deaths following a vaccine, or 0.0021%. That’s far lower than the claims from the vaccine death report. However, that’s still unsubstantiated given that VAERS reports do not conclude if a vaccine caused an adverse event. More evidence is needed. [...] A report written by anti-vaccine advocates on a website called Stop World Control made claims that the COVID-19 vaccine has killed millions of people.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2024-04-03): You asked, we answered: Does VAERS list deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines? [...] Is it true that VAERS says 14,000 people have died from the COVID-19 vaccines? [...] As of Nov. 2, people have reported to VAERS 14,506 deaths that occurred sometime after COVID-19 vaccination. Doctors at the CDC review each reported death, looking at death certificates, autopsy and medical records. Additional CDC vaccine safety monitoring systems such as the National Healthcare Safety Network, Vaccine Safety Datalink, Clinical Immununization Safety Assessment Project and FDA's vaccine safety reporting systems are then used to provide more rigorous scientific investigation of potential adverse events. The true number of deaths currently attributed to COVID-19 vaccines in detailed scientific investigation is quite small.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2022-03-08): Covid vaccines not linked to deaths, major US study finds [...] Because Covid jabs were originally authorised in the United States under emergency-use provisions, healthcare providers are required to report all deaths following vaccination, whether a doctor suspects a "plausible" link or not. [...] Death rates "The rapid pace at which Covid-19 vaccines were administered under emergency use, especially among older populations, was unprecedented," the CDC's Dr David Shay said.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-03-27): Whilst COVID-19 vaccination has been linked to an increased risk of myocarditis and other cardiac events in young people, we found no evidence of substantially increased mortality risk, either due to cardiac events or overall, from mRNA vaccines, which suggest that cases of myocarditis or myopericarditis due to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be fatal. We do, however, find evidence of an increased risk of cardiac death after a first dose of a non mRNA vaccine among females. It should also be noted that non mRNA vaccines are no longer used in the UK vaccination programme28. This provides reassurance that mRNA vaccines pose minimal risk of increased mortality in the first twelve weeks post-vaccination in young individuals. However, it is important to continue to monitor mortality after vaccination as more deaths are being registered, and extend the surveillance to other age groups and deaths from other causes.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2024-10-07): UK doctor admits trying to kill his mother’s partner with poison disguised as a COVID-19 vaccine LONDON (AP) — A British doctor on Monday admitted trying to kill his mother’s long-term partner, who stood between him and an inheritance, by injecting the man with poison disguised as a COVID-19 vaccine.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2024-01-09): We rate the claim that there have been 17 million deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines False. [...] AFP, Report falsely claims Covid vaccines killed 17 million worldwide, Oct. 23, 2023 [...] Health Feedback, Analysis claiming to find COVID-19 vaccines killed 17 million people is highly flawed, doesn’t account for COVID-19 mortality surges, Oct. 11, 2023
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-04-17): Despite overwhelming evidence that COVID-19 vaccines have mitigated the effects of the pandemic, a report called the Vaccine Damage Project, or V-Damage Project, claims that they led to 310,000 excess deaths among Americans ages 25 through 64 in 2021 and 2022. It also baselessly claims the vaccines had a "significant impact" on the number of Americans with disabilities and that COVID-19 vaccines were the "most likely cause" for a large increase in work absences. [...] The alleged findings of the V-Damage Project have been shared widely on social media. Edward Dowd, a founding partner of Phinance Technologies, baselessly tweeted that the "estimated human cost" of the vaccines was 26.6 million injuries, 1.36 million disabilities and 300,000 excess deaths. Dowd has repeatedly said that COVID-19 vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths, claims that have been debunked by other fact-checkers. [...] Finally, there is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines have killed large numbers of people. The Food and Drug Administration and CDC have multiple systems for monitoring vaccine safety, and they have detected very few deaths caused by the vaccines.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2024-02-04): Experts say mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, not caused mass deaths [...] The COVID-19 vaccines have been rigorously tested and monitored for years and public health authorities worldwide continue to find them safe and effective. Billions of doses have been administered worldwide. The vaccines have saved millions of lives, and adverse effects are rare. [...] PolitiFact, "Activist misuses federal data to make Pants on Fire claim that COVID-19 vaccines killed 676,000," Aug. 14, 2023
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-08-24): COVID-19 has killed nearly 675,000 people in the U.S., and more than 4.5 million worldwide. The vaccines authorized in the U.S. have been shown to significantly reduce the likelihood of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. [...] "Yes, there are many people — thousands even — who have died within weeks or even days of getting a COVID-19 vaccine. That is because there are hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and human beings are mortal," he said. [...] More than 380 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from Dec. 14, 2020, through Sept. 13, 2021. In that period, VAERS received 7,653 reports of death (0.0020%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-07-02): The COVID-19 vaccines have been shown in trials and real-world application to be safe and effective. But a paper shared widely online claimed that vaccines cause two deaths for every three lives saved. Experts say the analysis misinterpreted data and was flawed — and it has now been retracted by the journal that published it. [...] In the latest iteration of that type of data being misrepresented, a peer-reviewed paper published in a scientific journal used it to dubiously claim that the COVID-19 vaccines were causing deaths at such a scale that they nearly rival the number of lives saved through the vaccines. [...] Wadman, Meredith. "Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill." Science. 1 Jul 2021.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-10-04): There has been widespread speculation about the side-effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, including, tragically, deaths. But how many people have died as a result of a vaccine and why do different sources of data tell a different story? Sarah Caul takes a look at what the data are showing us. [...] The COVID-19 vaccination programme led to a very large number of people receiving vaccinations in a relatively short period. Some people will, sadly, die by chance shortly after receiving a vaccine, so the death can be mistakenly attributed to the COVID-19 vaccination by a family member or carer. In the course of such a large-scale programme, this could add up to a large number. [...] The Yellow Card Scheme data, by contrast, give an important early warning about possible deaths relating to COVID-19 vaccinations, and form a basis for further investigations. However, the numbers don’t show confirmed cases of deaths linked to the vaccines and should not be used for this purpose. Many of these deaths will actually have had other causes, which explains why these numbers are so much higher than the deaths registrations.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-11-06): COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of death from COVID-19. Social media posts have misused survey data and adverse events reports to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than COVID-19. But serious adverse events resulting from vaccination, including deaths, are rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines have substantially reduced the risk of severe disease and death, according to multiple studies, even as more transmissible and immune-evasive variants have led to widespread infections. [...] Kertscher, Tom. "Activist Misuses Federal Data to Make False Claim That Covid Vaccines Killed 676,000." KFF Health News. 1 Sep 2023.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-03-17): Covid-19 vaccines are killing people in huge numbers now, and new ONS data proves this. [...] A post on Instagram claims that new data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the Covid-19 vaccines "in fact are killing in huge numbers now". [...] According to ONS data, 52 deaths have been registered in England and Wales due to "COVID-19 vaccines causing adverse effects in therapeutic use" as of January 2023. In Scotland there have been nine in the period up to 12 February. There has been at least one registered death in Northern Ireland up to the end of 2022. It is possible that this UK total of 61 may rise, if there’s been a delay in registering some deaths.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-11-08): Fewer than 260 million people have died globally from all causes since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in late 2020, according to United Nations data and mortality projections. The video was posted by a website that regularly publishes fabricated stories. [...] Only projected mortality data was available for 2023. Even if all deaths in 2020 and all projected deaths in 2023 are included in the count, official estimates show there have been around 260 million deaths, not a billion, since the COVID-19 vaccines became available. [...] USA TODAY has previously debunked inaccurate claims connecting the COVID-19 vaccines to mass deaths. In reality, serious adverse reactions to them are rare, according to multiple studies. Various studies have estimated that the COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2024-04-10): During the same period, COVID-19 was cited as the cause of death for 30 Oregon residents in this age group. Among these 30 decedents, ALERT IIS had records for 22 (73%), only three of whom had received any COVID-19 vaccination. Studies have shown significant reductions in COVID-19–related mortality among vaccinated persons; during the first 2 years of COVID-19 vaccine availability in the United States, vaccination prevented an estimated 18.5 million hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths (9). [...] Vaccine 2022;40:1499–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.074 PMID:35105494 - Block JP, Boehmer TK, Forrest CB, et al. Cardiac complications after SARS-CoV-2 infection and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination—PCORnet, United States, January 2021–January 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:517–23. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7114e1 PMID:35389977 - Fitzpatrick M, Moghadas S, Pandey A, Galvani A. Two years of U.S. COVID-19 vaccines have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; 2022. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations https://doi.org/10.26099/whsf-fp90 - CDC. Update: vaccine side effects, adverse reactions, contraindications, and precautions. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep 1996;45(No. RR-12):1–35. PMID:8801442
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-08-27): "COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Fatalities Exceed 6,000." [...] Since December 2020, more than 469 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the U.S., and VAERS has received 10,483 reports of death (0.0022%), according to the CDC. (Numbers as of Dec. 29, 2021.) [...] Meanwhile, what we do know for sure is that more than 58 million U.S. residents have been infected and more than 800,000 have died from COVID-19, and the vaccine is one of the best tools to slow the spread of the virus and save lives.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2020-11-09): Covid-19: Denmark to kill 17 million minks over mutation that could undermine vaccine effort
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-05-06): "Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about", said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, briefing the media at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. According to WHO’s Coronavirus Dashboard which has collated key statistics since early in the pandemic, the cumulative cases worldwide now stand at 765,222,932, with nearly seven million deaths: the precise figure currently stands at 6,921,614. [...] He said the virus – first made a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO chief on 30 January, 2020 - was here to stay: "It is still killing and it is still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths."
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2020-04-22): More than one million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed as of 2 April, according to data compiled by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. But in much of the world, people exhibiting mild or no symptoms are unable to get tested, meaning that the true number of cases could be much higher. [...] The COVID-19 pandemic could have infected 90% of the world’s population and killed 40.6 million people if no mitigation measures had been put in place to combat it, according to estimates from an influential modelling group at Imperial College London. The report from the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, published on 26 March, highlights the importance of acting early to suppress the outbreak. The analysis says that introducing social distancing, testing and isolation of infected people would cut worldwide deaths to 1.9 million, if carried out when each country’s fatality rate was 0.2 deaths per 100,000 people per week. Implementing these measures only when the death rate reaches 1.6 per 100,000 people per week would lead to 10.5 million lives lost globally, it finds. According to Nature’s analysis of death rates from Our World in Data — counting each day at the centre of a rolling weekly window of deaths — Italy hit the 0.2 threshold on 2–3 March, the United Kingdom on 17 March and the United States on 22 March.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2020-10-10): A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half A Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn A conservation group is warning that the development of an effective coronavirus vaccine on a global scale could ravage shark populations worldwide, as researchers race to produce a vaccine using an oil derived from sharks. [...] Shark Allies, a nonprofit that advocates for the protection of sharks, projects that some 500,000 sharks could be killed if a coronavirus vaccine with shark squalene proves to be effective. Already, an estimated 2.7 million sharks are killed annually for their squalene to make cosmetics, according to the group.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2022-12-19): China COVID wave could kill one million people, models predict Boosting vaccination rates, widespread mask use and reimposing some restrictions on movement could reduce the number of deaths. [...] Up to one million people in China could die from COVID-19 over the next few months, according to some of the first projections since the government lifted many of its strict ‘zero-COVID-19’ measures.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-12-08): Steve Kirsch’s claim that New Zealand data shows COVID-19 vaccines killed millions is based on a flawed analysis [...] On 30 November 2023, entrepreneur Steve Kirsch gave a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claiming that New Zealand data showed COVID-19 vaccines have "killed over 10 million worldwide". Kirsch, who had been invited to speak by the student group MIT Students for Open Inquiry, has a record of propagating vaccine misinformation. As documented in previous reviews by Health Feedback, Kirsch’s claims frequently rely on methodologically flawed analyses. [...] He concluded that COVID-19 vaccines were responsible for millions of deaths based on the fact that his analysis showed deaths rose in the first six months after vaccination in those aged 60 and above. The same trend was also seen in an overall analysis for all ages (shown in slides 136 to 140).
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2022-05-05): New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as "excess mortality") between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million). [...] Excess mortality includes deaths associated with COVID-19 directly (due to the disease) or indirectly (due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society). Deaths linked indirectly to COVID-19 are attributable to other health conditions for which people were unable to access prevention and treatment because health systems were overburdened by the pandemic. The estimated number of excess deaths can be influenced also by deaths averted during the pandemic due to lower risks of certain events, like motor-vehicle accidents or occupational injuries. Most of the excess deaths (84%) are concentrated in South-East Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Some 68% of excess deaths are concentrated in just 10 countries globally. Middle-income countries account for 81% of the 14.9 million excess deaths (53% in lower-middle-income countries and 28% in upper-middle-income countries) over the 24-month period, with high-income and low-income countries each accounting for 15% and 4%, respectively.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2023-12-16): Data from around the world support the general safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some people online, however, incorrectly claim that illegally obtained data from New Zealand show the vaccines have killed 13 million people worldwide. Experts say the analysis is bogus. [...] Most recently, Steve Kirsch, a tech entrepreneur who has become a major source of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, has claimed that leaked data from the New Zealand government "prove" that the vaccines have killed on average 1 person for every 1,000 doses — or when extrapolated to the entire world, about 13 million people. [...] "Steve Kirsch’s claim that New Zealand data shows COVID-19 vaccines killed millions is based on a flawed analysis." Health Feedback. 8 Dec 2023.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2021-04-09): The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reached the milestone of administering one million COVID-19 vaccines throughout the country. This occasion comes on the heels of the Biden-Harris Administration’s announcement that nearly 150 million people in the United States have been vaccinated. [...] USDA has also intentionally used its footprint in rural areas, tribal communities, and with socially disadvantaged groups to put equity at the forefront of its outreach. Equity is central to communities and people being disproportionately infected and killed by the pandemic receiving the COVID-19 vaccines they need and deserve. [...] Dr. Maria Esteras, a Veterinary Medical Officer with the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), was previously deployed in the field helping with COVID-19 vaccination efforts. During her 13-year career with FSIS, she has always been proud of their role in protecting the public’s health and impacting millions of people around the world every day.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” (Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31)
Evidence (2022-12-13): It has been two years since the first COVID-19 vaccine was given to a patient in the United States. Since then, the U.S. has administered more than 655 million doses — 80 percent of the population has received at least one dose — with the cumulative effect of preventing more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths. The swift development of the vaccine, emergency authorization to distribute widely, and rapid rollout have been instrumental in curbing hospitalization and death, while mitigating socioeconomic repercussions of the pandemic. [...] From December 2020 through November 2022, we estimate that the COVID-19 vaccination program in the U.S. prevented more than 18.5 million additional hospitalizations and 3.2 million additional deaths. Without vaccination, there would have been nearly 120 million more COVID-19 infections. The vaccination program also saved the U.S. $1.15 trillion (Credible Interval: $1.10 trillion–$1.19 trillion) (data not shown) in medical costs that would otherwise have been incurred. [...] Vaccination also has prevented many millions of COVID infections. Although the acute phase of these infections may not have required medical attention, each infection carries a risk of long COVID and debilitating symptoms. Many of the prevented infections would have been reinfections, which have higher risk of death compared to initial infections. In addition, as our previous analysis demonstrated, vaccines have kept children in school, highlighting the societal value of the ongoing vaccination program.