FACT CHECK: Vaccines Are Not More Deadly Than COVID-19 in Taiwan.
On October 13, the Falun-Gong-affiliated New Tang Dynasty Television ran a report on deaths among those vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The report insinuated that the vaccine was more harmful than COVID-19.
“In Taiwan, the number of people dying after their COVID-19 vaccination is exceeding the number of deaths from the virus itself,” said the reporter, Tiffany Meier.
“Taiwan’s health authorities say that as of Monday (October 11), deaths after vaccination reached 865. While deaths from the virus are 845.”
The report includes a screen capture from Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control, which it claims shows 652 COVID-19 deaths after the AstraZeneca vaccine; 184 after the Moderna vaccine; 26 after Taiwan’s domestically developed Medigen vaccine; and three after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The implication that vaccines might kill more people than COVID-19 is false. The report leaves out important context, is mathematically naïve and ignores abundant scientific evidence that vaccines are safe and effective.
LINK: www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-taiwan-covid-vaccine-death/31521527.html
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