A post on Instagram from 15 January 2022 says: “Did you know that only 3,774 people under 65 have died of covid in the UK?” This is not correct. Up to the end of November 2021, which is the latest data available, 17,095 people aged under 65
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Snopes→ US Faces Wave of Omicron Deaths in Coming Weeks, Models Say
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides.
PolitiFact→ Roger Williams – Roger Williams is accurate that there were more COVID-19 deaths in 2021 than in 2020
"The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Will NOT Begin To Provide Data On How Many US Deaths Are ‘From’ COVID And How Many Are ‘With’ COVID – It’s Already Done That Way
Will the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) newly begin in January 2022 to provide data on how many U.S. deaths are "from" COVID and how many are "with" COVID? No, that's not true: The National Center for Health Statistics (
Poynter→ Social media claims distort CDC director Rochelle Walensky’s comment about COVID-19 deaths and comorbidities
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, one of the nation’s top public-health officials, shared encouraging news in a TV interview about the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing COVID-19 deaths. But social media posts […] The post Social media claims distort
Health Feedback→ CDC director’s comments that 75% of COVID-19 deaths are among people with four comorbidities applies only to vaccinated people
REVIEW An article published on the website for The Joe Pags Show, the talk show of commentator Joe Pagliarulo, used a partial quote from Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to suggest that 75% of CO
Logically→ Autopsies reveal that 93 percent of post-vaccination deaths are caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
A non-peer-reviewed paper is cited to show vaccinations cause deaths. There is no direct clinical evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Social media claims distort CDC director’s comment about COVID-19 deaths and comorbidities
“The CDC director just said that 75% of ‘Covid deaths’ occurred in people with at least four comorbidities.”
Health Feedback→ The scientific evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of infection and mortality; analysis of cases and deaths from 145 countries is methodologically flawed
REVIEW A Substack article claimed that a “New big data study of 145 countries show COVID vaccines makes things worse (cases and deaths)”. The article, written by tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, received more than 4,700 engagements on Facebook, i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Misinterpreted CDC Director Quote About 75% COVID Deaths With 4+ Comorbidities Was About Vaccinated People
Did Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "confess" that over 75% of COVID deaths occurred in people with at least four comorbidities? No, that's not true: The percentage is correct but extreme
Snopes→ Do 75% of All Covid Deaths Involve People With 4 Comorbidities?
Important context was edited out of a viral video featuring CDC director Rochelle Walensky.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The COVID-19 vaccines won’t lead to the deaths of a half million sharks
"Half a million sharks could be killed to make the COVID-19 vaccine."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Africa DID Have Half The COVID Deaths Of US In 2021, While Africa Has 4 Times The Population And Only 7% Vaccination Rate
Did Africa have half the COVID-19 deaths in 2021 that the United States had, with four times the population and just a 7% vaccination rate? Yes, that's mostly true, but not the whole story: The figures are ballpark, but there's no reason
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Fentanyl deaths spike, but Facebook post overstates by how much
“More people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.”
PolitiFact→ No evidence government-funded AIDS clinical trials caused foster children deaths in New York
An investigative report that evaluated government-funded clinical trials for HIV and AIDS treatments found no evidence that the medications caused foster children to die.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Misleading Statistic Says Vaccinated Make Up Four In Five COVID-19 Deaths In England
Does the claim that the vaccinated account for four in every five COVID-19 deaths in England tell the complete story? No, that's not true: It is misleading because it fails to consider the context of very high vaccine coverage in the popu
FactCheck.org→ Article Makes Unfounded Claims Linking Athletes’ Injuries, Deaths to Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Many U.S. athletes have been vaccinated against COVID-19 without any adverse effects. But a conservative outlet has cited a list of supposedly vaccine-injured athletes to claim “there may be something wrong with the vaccine.” There
Full Fact→ Why might vaccinated people account for a bigger share of Covid-19 deaths than infections?
An article from the blog, The Exposé, claims that fully vaccinated people accounted for nine in 10 Covid-19 deaths in Scotland over the past four months. Screenshots of the article’s headline, including this claim, have also circulated on
PolitiFact→ John McGuire – Overdose deaths up 35% in Virginia
“Overdoses in Virginia (are) up 35%.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Clots, heart problems from COVID-19 vaccines rare; deaths from the virus persist
Society is “choosing blood clots and heart problems over cold and flu symptoms, or even no symptoms at all.”
Snopes→ Travis Scott Says He Was Unaware of Deaths Until After Show
In a lengthy interview with TV and radio personality Charlamagne Tha God posted on YouTube, Scott described from his perspective what happened at the Nov. 5 festival that left 10 people dead.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pilot Deaths Are NOT ‘Up 1700% After Vax Mandates’
Are pilot deaths up 1,700% after vax mandates? No, that's not true: The erroneous claim is based on an "In Memoriam" list that was published in the Air Line Pilots Association magazine that shows that more pilots died in 2021 than in 2020
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccine related deaths in Taiwan are higher than those due to the virus.
The reports data doesn't include deaths explicitly due to vaccines. Autopsies confirmed that most people died due to preexisting conditions.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer Did NOT Under-Report Deaths In Clinical Trial Of COVID-19 Vaccine — Numbers Change As New Data Accumulate
Did Pfizer under-report the number of deaths in the 40,000-person clinical trial of the company's COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: The claim ignores the fact that, over the course of an ongoing clinical trial for a new vaccine, numb
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In Scotland, Fully Vaccinated ARE Nearly 9 In Every 10 COVID-19 Deaths — But Simple Numbers Can Mislead
Do fully vaccinated people account for nine in every 10 COVID-19 deaths in Scotland? Yes, that's a bit exaggerated yet true: But simple ratio analysis based on that statistic doesn't tell the story fully. The figures are found in the COVI
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fully Vaccinated People Do NOT Make Up 40% Of COVID-19 Deaths In Maryland
Were more than 40% of the people who died from COVID-19 in Maryland "over the last 6 to 8 weeks" fully vaccinated? No, that's not true: When the claim was made on October 18, 2021, the real number of deaths from COVID of fully vaccinated
Full Fact→ No available evidence that vaccines caused teen deaths
A Facebook post suggests the tragic deaths of 10 teenagers and young adults may have been caused by Covid-19 vaccines. The post includes an image that compiles headlines from reports of these deaths. Text next to the image states: “Thinking of ge
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Astroworld Deaths NOT Caused By ‘Graphene Oxide’ In COVID-19 Vaccines That Caused ‘Razor Blades’ Blood
Were the Astroworld Travis Scott concert deaths caused by "a crowd with razor blades in their blood" and graphene oxide? No, that's not true: There is no credible evidence supporting the claim that there is graphene oxide in any of the CO
Logically→ In Scotland, heart disorders have risen by 118 percent and excess deaths by 40 percent in young adults since being given the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Daily Expose's report is based on the assumption that the vaccine causes blood clots, which is misleading since it happens in very rare cases.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Is NOT A Verified Accurate Account Of 108 Deaths Of FIFA Players And Coaches In Six Months Of 2021
Did 108 FIFA-registered players and coaches die in six months of 2021, as stated in a viral tweet? No, this claim is unsubstantiated. The number cited in the post, 108, seems to have originated from a source making a different claim that
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In UK, Fully Vaccinated ARE 4 In Every 5 COVID-19 Deaths — But Simple Ratio Can Mislead If Other Variables Ignored
Do fully vaccinated people account for four in every five recent COVID-19 deaths in the UK? Yes, that's true: But simple ratio analysis based on that statistic doesn't tell the story fully. The figures are found in the COVID-19 vaccine su
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Can taking vitamin D really eliminate all COVID-19 deaths?
“Vitamin D levels of 50 ng/mL correlates to zero mortality rate from COVID.”
Health Feedback→ Contrary to claim in Becker News article, not all cases of infection lead to immunity; falsely claims that most COVID-19 deaths weren’t caused by COVID-19 but by comorbidities
REVIEW An article published by Becker News in mid-November 2021, written by former Fox News writer Kyle Becker, claimed in its headline that “The CDC Finally Admits a Massive Number of Americans Have ‘Natural Immunity’: 146.6 Million People”
Snopes→ US Overdose Deaths Topped 100,000 in One Year, Officials Say
Overdose deaths have been rising for more than two decades, accelerated in the past two years and jumped nearly 30% in the latest year.
Full Fact→ Covid vaccines have not caused four times as many deaths as all other vaccines combined
An article shared on Facebook claims that in the UK, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 vaccines in 10 months is 330% higher than the number of deaths due to all other vaccines combined over the last 20 years. The article, published by The Expos&eacu
Logically→ In-hospital deaths due to COVID-19 between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients are the same, a Norway study finds.
The study is restricted to hospitalized patients outside the Intensive Care Units and is yet to be peer-reviewed.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deaths Reported To VAERS Associated With COVID-19 Vaccinations Do NOT All Come From Five Percent Of Vaccine Batches
Do deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) associated with COVID-19 vaccinations all stem from 5% of vaccine batches? No, that's not true: There is no evidence of widespread issues with specific vaccine lots.
Health Feedback→ Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths, the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians
REVIEW In early 2020, during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Italy became one of the hardest hit countries in the world. As of 9 November 2021, the country totalized more than 130,000 deaths from COVID-19. In November 2021, several websit
Logically→ Deaths at the Astroworld music festival in Houston were caused by 5G and COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines approved in the U.S. do not contain graphene oxide. Nor is there any evidence that the deaths took place because of 5G.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deaths of 2,433 Babies NOT Found In VAERS, ‘Another Study’ Does NOT Show mRNA Shots Unsafe for Pregnant Women
Do the reported adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in the United States include the deaths of 2,433 babies, and is there another study that shows mRNA shots are not safe for pregnant women? No, that's not true: A Lead Stories analysis