Vaccine opponents falsely link excess deaths to vaccines rather than COVID-19

Late last year, the CEO of a life insurance company said that the industry was seeing historic death rates among working-age adults. In the last week, several prominent social media accounts and a popular political commentary program have resurfaced the executive’s statement with the false claim that the excess deaths are due to COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. recorded over half a million excess deaths before COVID-19 vaccines were being administered, and will soon reach a total of one million deaths from COVID-19. People who are unvaccinated are at a much greater risk than those who are fully vaccinated to die from Covid-19.

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