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Friday, Dec. 17, 2021

Are COVID-19 vaccines seven times more likely to kill someone in their 20s than COVID-19 itself?

Ed Payne, Lead Stories

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A Japanese medical bulletin is the source of an online article claiming that vaccines pose a seven times higher death rate than COVID-19 for people in their 20s.

The Japanese authors base their case on the assumption that three people in their 20s, who died in the days after a COVID-19 vaccination, died from the shot. But the authors of the Japanese publication are making assumptions that health officials aren't. No causal link has been established between the reported deaths of the people in their 20s and the COVID-19 vaccine.

Like the U.S. and its VAERS reporting system, Japan has its own adverse events reporting system — but as with VAERS, reports are unverified.

A CDC study also says "vaccinated persons tend to be healthier than unvaccinated persons."

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