“A person is 300 to 900 times more likely to die “after getting the #Covid vaccine than the flu vaccine.”
What FactCheck.org found
Berenson based his claim on unvetted information submitted to a federal database. It is not used to determine death rates. The CDC has not received confirmation of a single COVID-19 vaccine-related death.
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In short
Alex Berenson (Writer) made this claim around 15 February 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 February 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Alex Berenson has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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