Claim: The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are a likely contributing factor to the number of excess deaths in the UK.
Fact-check: Excess deaths would be higher without Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
Verdict: a few dozen people have died as a result of a covid-19 vaccination, but the vaccines have also prevented tens of thousands of deaths. this means that on balance there would have been more excess deaths without them.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2023-01-13T00:00:00