Thread by @ncdave4life

@dperetti One the anti-vax scammers' favorite lies is the claim that Covid-19 vaccines have killed thousands of people. They haven't. Here are links to two different debunkings of that lie:
sealevel.info/covid.html#vae…

@dperetti On an average day, in the developed world, about 0.0023% of any randomly chosen population dies.

In the USA, that works out to about 7,500 deaths per day. In other words, if you pick an American at random, there's about a 0.0023% chance that he or she will die within 24 hours.

@dperetti So far, about 7 billion Covid-19 vaccine jabs have been given, globally. 0.0023% of that is 161,000.

Americans got 411 million jabs (I got 3). 0.0023% of 411M is 9,453.

Those are estimates of number of COINCIDENTAL deaths within ONE DAY of getting a jab, NOT caused by the jab.

@dperetti I hope that makes it obvious why VAERS reports of much smaller numbers people dying within days of getting vaccinated is NOT evidence that the vaccines have killed anyone.

Now, look at these statistics, from the CDC:
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

@dperetti Age-adjusted all-cause mortality risk for an unvaccinated person was a whopping 3.2× higher than for someone (like me) vaccinated with Moderna.

Table:
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

@dperetti It's unsurprising that age-adjusted all-cause mortality is highest for unvaccinated people, but the difference is bigger than I'd have expected, considering that Covid-19 caused <20% of US deaths during the study period.

@dperetti Perhaps it's a reflection of the old adage: "stupidity is a capital offense." People foolish enough to be duped by anti-vax lies are apparently also foolish enough to take other risks or make other foolish choices, and get killed in other foolish ways.