Amid reported deaths following COVID-19 vaccinations, experts allay fears, discourage alarm
Experts caution against linking deaths with injection.
By Daniel Payne
Updated: February 2, 2021 - 8:04am
As questions have begun to swirl around numerous deaths that have been reported after individuals received a COVID-19 vaccine, experts are urging the public not to leap to the conclusion that those fatalities were caused by the vaccine itself.
The deaths that have been reported worldwide following an injection of the vaccine include: nearly three dozen elderly patients in Norway, the baseball legend Hank Aaron, a Florida physician, another Florida medical worker, an individual in Placer County, Calif., and numerous others.
Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that in a Wednesday meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices the agency identified just under 200 deaths "following COVID-19 vaccination" in the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a database run by the CDC. As of Monday evening, that number had risen to a little over 230.
Nordlund cautioned that the deaths in VAERS should not be assumed to have been caused by the vaccine.
"It's important to be aware that we can describe how many reports VAERS has received after a given vaccine," she told Just the News. "We cannot tell you how many are associated with the vaccine. VAERS data generally don't allow determination of causality."
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