The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or VAERS, reports 19,886 deaths, 102,857 hospitalizations and a total of 946,461 adverse events due to COVID-19 vaccines through Dec. 3.
If the following Columbia study’s underreporting factor is correct, it would mean that there are nearly 400,000 deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines.
Oct 2021 Spiro P. Pantazatos and Hervé Seligmann
Comparing our estimate with the CDC-reported VFR (0.002%) suggests VAERS deaths are underreported by a factor of 20, consistent with known VAERS under-ascertainment bias.
Comparing our age-stratified VFRs with published age-stratified coronavirus infection fatality rates (IFR) suggests the risks of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults, and older adults with low occupational risk or previous coronavirus exposure. Our findings raise important questions about current COVID mass vaccination strategies and warrant further investigation and review.
Read full Columbia research paper (pdf) here:
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The headline of the article is incorrect. The study authors found a scale-up factor (URF) from VAERS to the real world of twenty. However, the USA number of deaths from VAERS was ~9300 as of 10 December 2021, not the larger number shown (19886). The 9300 number is for USA and territories, while the larger number includes foreign. Thus, the total for USA and territories would be about 9300 x 20, or 186,000 deaths.