Fact check: Coronavirus vaccines don’t cause death, won’t decimate world’s population

The claim: Coronavirus vaccines are killing people and will decimate the world’s population

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Fact check: Coronavirus vaccines don’t cause death, won’t decimate world’s population Eb34e792-8f8a-4297-81e8-1c84f9cea17b-Lipid_coating

Several widely shared videos and blog posts on Facebook say the coronavirus vaccines are a matter of life and death — but not due to the risk of COVID-19.

In an article published April 22, and later taken down, a website called Red Pill University (a reference to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory) wrote that COVID-19 vaccines “will decimate world’s population.” As evidence, it cites a video featuring Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.

Bhakdi is a microbiologist who has promoted ideas that run counter to the scientific consensus about the coronavirus pandemic, including the false claim that face masks don’t protect against infection. In the video, which was originally published by the New American, a conservative magazine, Bhakdi says coronavirus vaccines are deadly.

“They are forcing vaccination on people, and I believe they are killing people with this vaccination,” he says during the video, which has more than 268,000 views on Rumble, a video-sharing platform.

“Guys, don’t get a third or fourth or fifth (shot), because if you do that, you are going to contribute to the decimation of the world’s population,” he says later.

Over the course of the 40-minute clip, Bhakdi calls the pandemic “a fake,” says wearing masks and quarantining is “absolutely ridiculous nonsense,” and coronavirus tests don’t work. In this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that coronavirus vaccines are killing people.

That claim sounds scary coming from a scientist, but it's not accurate.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved three coronavirus vaccines for emergency use in the United States. Clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants found the vaccines were all safe and effective at preventing coronavirus infection, and millions of Americans have safely received them.

.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/30/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-dont-cause-death-wont-depopulate-planet/7411271002/

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Fact check: Coronavirus vaccines don’t cause death, won’t decimate world’s population

Fact check: Coronavirus vaccines don’t cause death, won’t decimate world’s population

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