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COVID Deaths vs Vaccine Deaths: Facts on Pandemic Fatalities

“Have more people died as a result of covid or the covid vaccine”
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Confidence: High Checked on May 3, 2026

Summary

The pandemic has caused over 3.8 million confirmed deaths worldwide, whereas deaths directly linked to COVID‑19 vaccines number in the low hundreds and lack proven causality. Major health authorities and independent fact‑checks confirm that vaccine‑related fatalities are far fewer than those from the disease itself.

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    The website Stop World Control published the so-called Vaccine Death Report in September · 2021, and it was shared across Facebook, including in this Sept. 26 post. It is written by David · Sorenson and Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a New York doctor who made headlines for prescribing · hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 even though health authorities cautioned against it. ... https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/claims-that-millions-of-people-have-died-from-the-covid-19-vaccine-are-unfounded/

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  • From SciCheck | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    False claims that COVID-19 vaccines have killed large numbers of people are hardly new, but a bogus estimate of 17 million vaccine deaths went viral again after a podcaster and former evolutionary biologist mentioned it in an interview with Tucker Carlson. The flawed estimate, which first made ...

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