Deaths from the Covid Vaccines

People are interpreting deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System web site as deaths from the vaccines. This is not the case.

Those are ANY sort of death. These reported deaths have not been traced to the vaccines. Correlation is not causation. About 6,500 people die in the US every day so it's not unusual that people die after receiving a vaccine. These are the reporting guidelines: 

Healthcare providers are required to report to VAERS the following adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination [under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)], and other adverse events if later revised by CDC: 

• Vaccine administration errors, whether or not associated with an adverse event (AE) 
• Serious AEs regardless of causality. Serious AEs per FDA are defined as: 

1. Death; 
2. A life-threatening AE; 
3. Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; 
4. A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions; 
5.  A congenital anomaly/birth defect; 
6.  An important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgement may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above. 

• Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome 
• Cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death 

Notice the "regardless of causality." 

So far there are THREE deaths linked to the Johnston & Johnson vaccine. There are also reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome related to the J & J vaccine. 

There have been a small number of cases of Myocarditis from Pfizer and Moderna. One person is reported to have died as a result in New Zealand. But the virus is 1,000 times more dangerous than any of these rare side effects.

So no, there have not been thousands of deaths caused by the vacines.