New Data On COVID Vaccine Deaths
05/29/2025
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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard
Two years ago, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed that 34% of Americans believe that the COVID vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths. As a result, some health departments have been forbidden from promoting the shots or have had to even ban them. Furthermore, despite clinical evidence to the contrary, 27% of people believe that the vax itself causes infertility-it does not, and 31% still believe that the anti-parasite drug, ivermectin, effectively treats COVID-it has been proven not to.
The rumor of “thousands of deaths” was partly driven by viral videos of young, healthy athletes collapsing on the field, alleging COVID vaccines were to blame. One of the most promoted of the videos, Sudden Death, has been exposed in these pages and by others as fabricated and blatantly dishonest. In many of the examples shown in the video, it has been proven that the collapsing athletes hadn't received a COVID shot, and deaths that did occur happened well before COVID vaccines were even available! Absolutely no evidence for a vaccine-related death can be found in that video.
After the real on-field cardiac arrest of the Buffalo Bill's Damar Hamlin in 2023, another unsubstantiated rumor by Peter McCullough, an MD darling of the anti-vax crowd, reported that sudden deaths in athletes had increased dramatically after the vax rollout. But, an epidemiologist who dug into McCullough’s data, found that his numbers were inaccurate and inflated–for example, some of the "young athlete deaths" were not actually healthy athletes who died suddenly on the field, but instead were random news reports of people of all ages dying from many different causes, including an elderly woman who died at home! McCullough is now hyping a non-existing health problem in the US so he can sell people his nostrum he claims mitigates the problem. Go figure.
Cardiac arrest. In contrast to all this disinformation, a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last February specifically looked into vaccine-associated deaths. It examined whether there was any increase in sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) (where the heart suddenly stops, but the person survives), or in sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young US athletes after either the appearance of COVID (2020) or the introduction of COVID vaccines in 2021.
The study found no association between the vaccine and cardiac problems. The highest year for both sudden cardiac arrest and death in the study was 2017, well before both the virus and vaccines were on the scene. Furthermore, the incidence of cardiac-related deaths did not change much from year to year, even AFTER the appearance of the virus or the vaccine! This is shown by the figure below (also notice how small the actual numbers are).
This finding is further supported by other studies that also have shown no increase in cardiac arrest in young people in general (ages 5-50) during the COVID vaccine rollout in Australia, and an overall decreasing rate of rare sudden cardiac deaths in NCAA athletes during the COVID vaccine roll out in the US.
Myocarditis. Many conspiracy theories are rooted in partial truths that are overinflated and vaccine-induced myocarditis is no exception. There are real, but very rare, documented incidences of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) after getting a COVID vaccine. Research from the Yale School of Medicine indicates that myocarditis happens in 0.036% of males age 12-17 after an mRNA vaccine. In contrast, this same age unvaccinated group experiences myocarditis twice that rate after COVID infection; thus the vaccine actually protects against the inflammation. Furthermore, vaccine-associated myocarditis is milder than other forms of myocarditis and patients quickly recover.
Bottom line. In reality, serious adverse events were very rare in large, randomized mRNA vaccine trials and occurred at a similar rate among people who got the vaccines and those who got the placebos. Finally, if the vaccines are so dangerous, why does the evidence proving that need to be fabricated?