Claim: Australia's 2021 official death statistics provide evidence COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of excess deaths.
Fact-check: Experts rubbish senator's deadly vaccine claim
Verdict: false. experts say the excess deaths are around a one per cent increase and can be explained by various factors including delayed health treatments during the pandemic, an ageing population and low death rates in 2020.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: William Summers
Date published: 2022-05-11T00:00:00