![]() ![]() “Excess deaths so obviously increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re able to, with some level of confidence, say that COVID was causing those excess deaths,” he said.COVID vaccines reduced the potential global death toll during the pandemic by almost two-thirds in their first year, saving an estimated 19.8 million lives, according to a mathematical modeling study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.Īn additional 600,000 lives could have been spared if a World Health Organization (WHO) goal of vaccinating 40% of the population of every country by the end of 2021 had been met, the authors of the study say. During the pandemic, he explained, the trends clearly showed that COVID-19 infections were causing excess deaths. Spencer Fox, an assistant professor in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Georgia, told the AP that excess deaths are a way to estimate how different weekly death rates in the current year compare to historical averages.įox said that normally it requires additional statistical analyses to understand the cause of excess deaths, unless the trends are clear. ![]() Other base less claims that people “died suddenly” from COVID-19 vaccines have circulated on social media following the release of an online film that made false claims about vaccine deaths and included footage that predated the pandemic. Tsai also refuted the headline’s claim that the CDC has “quietly” confirmed data about children and young adults dying “suddenly.” The CDC’s excess death data has long been public, he said, and “there is no way to really determine from the data whether people died suddenly or not.” OECD did not respond to a request for comment. Experts have said drug overdoses also contributed to higher-than-expected death rates in 2021, the AP reported. Instead, Tsai wrote in an email to the AP, likely reasons for excess deaths in this age group since 2020 include “increases in accidental deaths (mainly drug overdoses), suicides, homicides, heart diseases, liver disease, and diabetes.” He said a substantial number of the excess deaths are the result of COVID-19 itself.Ī surge in excess deaths among children and young adults in the summer of 2021, for example, corresponded with the delta variant of the coronavirus hitting the U.S., which affected younger people more than previous variants of the virus, Tsai explained.ĬDC data from December 2021 indicated that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. Scott Pauley, a spokesperson for the CDC, told the AP that outside of nine deaths confirmed to be associated with rare blood clots following the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the agency has “not detected any unusual or unexpected patterns for deaths following immunization that would indicate that COVID vaccines are causing or contributing to deaths.” Tsai also noted that excess deaths for 2022 are similar to those in 2020, when there were about 46,000.Ĭonfirmed reports of deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare, even with millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses having been administered in the U.S. The 124,000 excess deaths break down to about 80,000 excess deaths in 2021 and about 44,000 excess deaths in 2022. The article originally appeared in November on The Exposé, a website that has repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation. “CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines,” reads its headline. ![]() THE FACTS: A misleading article spreading widely online this week attempts to link recent child and young adult deaths in the U.S. Confirmed reports of deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare, even with millions of people vaccinated against COVID-19. ![]() However, the CDC has not attributed this increase to COVID-19 vaccines and experts told The Associated Press that it can likely be attributed to other causes, including more severe variants of the coronavirus. Excess deaths - the difference between the observed number of deaths and the expected number in a specific period - were higher for those 0 to 44 years old in the U.S. since the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out.ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: False. CLAIM: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly confirmed that at least 118,000 children and young adults have “died suddenly” in the U.S. ![]()
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