Fox News: The U.S. Government Is Hiding Deaths From the Covid-19 Vaccine
According to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the U.S. government is hiding deaths from the covid-19 vaccine. It’s a claim Carlson made multiple times in 2021, like on May 5, when he pulled numbers from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS.
“Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the covid vaccine in the United States—3,362,” Carlson said. “That’s an average of roughly 30 people every day.”
But Carlson didn’t stop there.
“The actual number is almost certainly higher than that, perhaps vastly higher than that,” Carlson said. “It’s clear that what is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal.”
As Politifact points out, Carlson is being misleading. Dying after you get vaccinated, which is the only thing that was being crowdsourced from the general public in this data, isn’t the same thing as dying from a vaccination. And anyone can send in a report to VAERS, which doesn’t fact check the claims. That didn’t stop Carlson from making wild accusations though. And it certainly wouldn’t be the last time.
