copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Zero Amish Children Diagnosed with Cancer, Diabetes or Autism; Amish children are largely unvaccinated; Covid death rates among Amish communities are 90 times lower than for the rest of America (Steve Kirsch, Patrick Webb, 2023-07-09)
Evidence (2024-10-08): In 2022, there were an estimated 136,000 measles deaths globally, mostly among unvaccinated or under vaccinated children under the age of 5 years.[110] In February 2024, the World Health Organization said more than half of the world was at risk of a measles outbreak due to Covid-19 pandemic-related disruptions in that month. All the world regions have reported such outbreaks with the exception of the Americas, though these could still be expected to become hotspots in the future. Death rates during the outbreaks tend to be higher among poorer countries but middle income nations are also heavily impacted, according to the WHO.[111] [...] - ^ a b c Gastañaduy PA, Budd J, Fisher N, Redd SB, Fletcher J, Miller J, et al. (October 2016). "A Measles Outbreak in an Underimmunized Amish Community in Ohio". The New England Journal of Medicine. 375 (14): 1343–1354. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1602295. PMID 27705270.
Claim: Zero Amish Children Diagnosed with Cancer, Diabetes or Autism; Amish children are largely unvaccinated; Covid death rates among Amish communities are 90 times lower than for the rest of America (Steve Kirsch, Patrick Webb, 2023-07-09)
Evidence (2024-07-23): It was calculated that for Amish children, who are strictly 100% unvaccinated, typical chronic conditions barely exist, if any at all. The chronic conditions, which 54% of vaccinated American children suffer from, include autoimmune disease, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, ADHD, arthritis, cancer, and autism. [...] That study conducted by the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation found that COVID death rates among the Amish communities are 90 times LOWER than for the rest of America despite roughly 90% of the Amish having been infected with COVID. [...] According to expert testimony, no Amish child could be found who had suffered from cancer, autism, heart disease, or other conditions.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-09-20): The COVID-19 vaccines were initially issued in the U.S. under Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA, which requires every serious adverse event that occurred post-COVID-19 vaccination to be reported, regardless of whether healthcare providers believe the vaccine was the cause. This led to an increase in the number of deaths reported in VAERS following the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines in 2021. However, studies have shown that vaccinated people don’t experience a higher risk of mortality compared to unvaccinated people.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-08-02): "How can it be that adverse event reports input to VAERS are greater, since the COVID vaccines were rolled out, than all cumulative adverse event reports to VAERS for the prior thirty years?" a post from Children’s Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccination organization, suggestively asks. "Death reports for 2021 are also greater than cumulative deaths reported to VAERS over the preceding 30 years. Why has no public health official explained this?" [...] As we explained then, the huge number of VAERS reports following COVID-19 vaccination and relative paucity for other vaccines is likely mostly due to a reporting bias. For one, because the COVID-19 vaccines are or were at first authorized under an emergency use authorization, there are much broader reporting requirements for health care providers. [...] We asked the Department of Health and Human Services to explain why VAERS reports are so much higher for the COVID-19 vaccines, and the CDC replied, identifying many of the reasons as the outside experts.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
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: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2024-02-01): Reporting rates for VAERS death reports following COVID-19 vaccination, December 14, 2020-November 17, 2021 - PMID: 36813704 - DOI: 10.1002/pds.5605 [...] Methods: This is a descriptive study evaluating reporting rates for VAERS death reports for COVID-19 vaccine recipients in the United States between December 14, 2020, and November 17, 2021. Reporting rates were calculated as death events per million persons vaccinated and compared to expected all-cause (background) death rates. Results: 9201 death events were reported for COVID-19 vaccine recipients aged 5 years and older (or age unknown). Reporting rates for death events increased with increasing age, and males generally had higher reporting rates than females. For death events within 7 days and 42 days of vaccination, respectively, observed reporting rates were lower than the expected all-cause death rates. Reporting rates for Ad26.COV2.S vaccine were generally higher than for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, but still lower than the expected all-cause death rates. Limitations of VAERS data include potential reporting bias, missing or inaccurate information, lack of a control group, and reported diagnoses, including deaths, are not causally verified diagnoses.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-08-09): A TikTok video liked more than 936,000 times claims that COVID-19 vaccines have killed some 6,000 people in the United States. "The Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System shows that 5,946 people have died because of the vaccine," the user states, referring to a government database called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. [...] During that period, VAERS received 6,490 reports of death (0.0019%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-10-04): 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. [...] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told Reuters that underreporting is a limitation in VAERS in regards to COVID-19 vaccines, but "there currently is not evidence to suggest it would underestimate the amount of COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths to such a large degree." [...] 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: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-07-20): If Your Time is short • A claim that 45,000 people died from COVID-19 vaccines came from a woman who did not reveal her method for calculating the figure and who has not been publicly identified. [...] The lawsuit says Doe determined that "the number of deaths occurring with (sic) 3 days of injection with the Vaccines exceeds those reported by VAERS by a factor of at least 5." It does not explain her method of calculation or how she arrived at that conclusion. [...] The woman used the figure of 9,048 deaths as a starting point for her calculations, according to the lawsuit. That was how many deaths associated with the vaccine had been reported to VAERS as of July 9, the lawsuit asserts. The number appears to be inaccurate, though, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that through July 19, VAERS received 6,207 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2022-10-04): So when VAERS says it has received 2,509 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine as of March 29, that does not mean that those deaths were caused by the vaccine. [...] "Just because somebody reports death doesn’t mean that the vaccine caused the death. So we don’t use VAERS to determine death rates or anything concerning death," a CDC spokesperson told us previously. [...] Take the 2,509 reports of death filed to VAERS as of March 29, which represent 0.0017% of those who had received a COVID-19 vaccine. People die every day for any number of reasons. In 2019, for example, 0.8% of the U.S. population died from any cause, according to the CDC. That was before the coronavirus pandemic.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2024-08-07): The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is the nation's early warning system that monitors the safety of FDA-approved vaccines and vaccines authorized for use for public health emergencies. The system accepts and analyzes reports of possible adverse events after vaccination and is co-managed by CDC and FDA. The number of reports submitted varies each year. VAERS accepts reports regardless of seriousness or how likely the vaccine may have caused the adverse event. A report to VAERS does not mean the vaccine caused the event. [...] - VAERS data alone cannot determine if the vaccine caused the reported adverse event. Establishing a causal relationship requires rigorous scientific assessment and consideration of multiple factors beyond just VAERS reports alone.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-05-18): This is roughly the number of deaths reported in the US following Covid-19 vaccination between December 2020 and April 2021, but there’s no evidence that these deaths were caused by the vaccine. [...] According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 4,434 deaths around the time of vaccination with Covid-19 vaccines were reported to VAERS between 14 December 2020 to 10 May 2021. During this period, over 259 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in the United States. These deaths were investigated by the CDC, who said that: "A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines. However, recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and a rare and serious adverse event—blood clots with low platelets—which has caused deaths."
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-08-02): "Reports in VAERS simply represent something that happened after you got a vaccine. They don’t tell you the vaccine caused this," Ellenberg said. [...] To start, a large number of COVID-19 vaccines were given out in a relatively short period of time, with more doses and priority given to older and more medically vulnerable people. The VAERS reporting requirements are also higher for the COVID-19 vaccines. Health care providers, for example, are required by law to report any vaccine administration error, any serious adverse event following vaccination, and any COVID-19 case that results in hospitalization or death. With other vaccines, providers are only required to report select adverse events. And the incredible amount of publicity and scrutiny of the new vaccines is arguably unprecedented in modern history. [...] Of the COVID-19 vaccines ever offered in the U.S., only the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been causally linked to thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS, which can be fatal. TTS is a blood clotting condition combined with low blood platelets and is extremely rare. Six reports of the condition to VAERS led regulators to temporarily suspend the use of the J&J vaccine in April 2021. Through May 2023, monitoring has identified nine deaths from TTS that are considered to be due to the vaccine. The J&J vaccine is no longer available in the U.S., after the last doses expired in May.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-09-20): Flawed reasoning: The claim that vaccine-related deaths are being underreported by a factor of 41 is based on a flawed analysis co-authored by Kirsch, using assumptions that aren’t supported by evidence. Inadequate support: An adverse event reported to VAERS doesn’t necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the issue. The VAERS database is a tool that helps identify unusual patterns that could indicate rare side effects. Determining whether the vaccine caused the event requires a much more detailed investigation beyond the total number of reports. Lack of context: The COVID-19 vaccines initially received Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA to speed up the rollout, which came with stricter reporting requirements to VAERS. Therefore, the number of VAERS reports associated with the COVID-19 vaccines is higher than for previous vaccines. A Facebook video posted on 6 August 2022 showed Steve Kirsch, a known spreader of COVID-19 misinformation, claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines caused higher rates of death than previously reported. Specifically, he claimed that these deaths were underreported by a factor of 41, which translated into 410,000 deaths post-vaccination as the VAERS database contains 10,000 deaths reported. [...] Kirsch’s multiplying VAERS reports of death by a figure of 41 is likely derived from an analysis that he co-authored, which alleged that genuine vaccine adverse events are underreported by a factor of 41. Briefly, Kirsch had arrived at this number by comparing one hospital’s reporting rates of post-vaccination anaphylaxis[1] and VAERS reporting rates of anaphylaxis as of March 2021.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-01-11): FDA experts reveal the Covid-19 Vaccines are killing at least 2 people for every 1 life they save as they vote 16 – 2 against the approval of booster shots "We were led to believe that the vaccines were perfectly safe but this is simply not true, for example there are four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the Pfizer 6 month file report, that wasn’t just bad luck.VAERS shows heart attacks happen 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine" [...] Approximately 70 people die from COVID vaccines every day in America – VAERS data [...] Intia vaatii rokotepetoksiin syyllistyneille kuolemanrangaistusta "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace covered the 1976 swine flu mass vaccination program which was halted after 4,000 reported adverse events. Now, think about this. There are currently 463,456 reported adverse events and 10,991 reported deaths for the COVID-19 vaccines in the CDC's VAERS database.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-06-01): While the largest, rather the most blown, pandemic was holding people's breath, 410,000 fewer people died than the statistics predicted! [...] This is not the only fatal case. Almost every day the press reports that someone has died after being vaccinated. Journalists immediately know that the vaccine was not the cause of death. [...] I read an article in the Texas Health Impact News about U.S. deaths after COVID19 vaccination.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2021-01-26): CDC- 6,113 DEAD Following COVID-19 Injections ("Besides the 6,113 deaths reported, there are 5,172 permanent disabilities, 6,435 life threatening events, and 51,558 emergency room visits." [...] Between mid-December 2020 and April 23, 2021, at which point between 95 million and 100 million Americans had received their COVID-19 shots, there were 3,544 reported deaths following COVID vaccination, or about 30 per day In just four months, the COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than all available vaccines combined from mid-1997 until the end of 2013 -- a period of 15.5 years
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-12-18): More Proof COVID ‘Vaccines' Have Killed MILLIONS [...] Italian Health Minister Investigated for Murder for Concealing COVID-19 Vaccine Deaths [...] Who Exposed COVID Vaccine Deaths
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2022-01-10): Mr. MIT is here to discuss some research he himself has been conducting on vaccines. He uncovered data demonstrating that the COVID vaccines are "very, very dangerous" and "1,000 times worse than the smallpox vaccine." He claims that he was made aware of vaccination deaths that happened within a week after getting the jab. Kirsch cites as the basis for this knowledge the testimony of some unnamed scientist friends as well as the VAERS database, a tool that, whatever its value to researchers who understand how properly to use it, has been widely panned by fact-checkers as being an unreliable source of data on COVID vaccine deaths. [...] Typically VAERS only sees a small fraction of the reports so you don’t know what the true number is, you just know what the small sample size is because people will have 41 events—41 deaths and only 1 will be reported. As an example I know a neurologist who has 2,000 vaccine injured and she’s only filed two VAERS reports, so she has an underreporting factor of 1,000. [...] So the result is just science: 10,000 deaths x 41 = at least 410,000 deaths from the vaccines.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2023-07-26): - We remove deaths that we think are likely to occur before each vaccine is administered.91 For example, in Bauchi state we estimate that 10% of under-five meningitis deaths occur in the first six weeks of life, before the first doses of the PCV and HiB vaccines are scheduled.92 - Some of the diseases covered by these vaccines are caused by multiple pathogens (e.g., only a portion of diarrheal disease is caused by rotavirus). We count only the portion of deaths that we think are caused by the specific pathogens targeted by vaccination (e.g., 41% of diarrheal disease is caused by rotavirus).93 Our adjustments are based on disease etiology estimates from GBD for rotavirus and View-Hub for lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis. View-Hub is a data visualization platform for vaccine-treatable diseases that we believe is likely to be a more reliable source than GBD for those diseases (details in footnote).94 We remain uncertain about these adjustments. In particular, we're highly uncertain how much weight to put on the findings of the PERCH study, which finds much lower etiological fractions of pneumonia due to bacteria like S. pneumoniae and HiB.95 [...] - What assumptions should we make about all-cause mortality? We currently assume 0.75 deaths are indirectly caused by every death directly caused by vaccine-preventable diseases. While we have some meta-analysis evidence that vaccines avert more deaths than would be expected from their impact on vaccine-preventable disease alone, this is a very rough guess.
Claim: VAERS reports show 410,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 vaccines; the COVID-19 vaccine caused 41 times more deaths than reported (Steve Kirsch, 2023-09-20)
Evidence (2024-06-07): Medicines were available against COVID—inexpensive, safe medicines—that would have prevented hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and saved as many lives if only we’d used them in this country. But Dr. Fauci and his Pharma collaborators deliberately suppressed those treatments in service to their single-minded objective—making America await salvation from their novel, multi-billion dollar vaccines. Americans’ native idealism will make them reluctant to believe that their government’s COVID policies were so grotesquely ill-conceived, so unfounded in science, so tethered to financial interests, that they caused hundreds of thousands of wholly unnecessary deaths. But, as you will see below, the evidence speaks for itself. [...] Dr. Fauci’s refusal to fix the HHS’s notoriously dysfunctional vaccine injury surveillance system (VAERS) constituted inexcusable negligence. HHS’s own studies indicate that VAERS may be understating vaccine injuries by OVER 99 percent.²⁹ [...] All of Dr. Fauci’s intrusive mandates and his deceptive use of data tended to stoke fear and amplify public desperation for the anticipated arrival of vaccines that would transfer billions of dollars from taxpayers to pharmaceutical executives and shareholders. Some of America’s most accomplished scientists, and the physicians leading the battle against COVID in the trenches, came to believe that Anthony Fauci’s do-or-die obsession with novel mRNA vaccines—and Gilead’s expensive patented antiviral, remdesivir—prompted him to ignore or even suppress effective early treatments, causing hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths while also prolonging the pandemic.