More Australians have died from COVID-19 vaccines than from the virus.
False. More than 12,000 Australians have died with or from COVID-19, while 13 deaths have been directly linked to the vaccine.
A former barrister who provides legal advice to a prominent anti-vaccination group claims more Australians have died from COVID-19 vaccines than the virus.
The claim is false. At the time of the claim, 13 deaths were directly linked to COVID-19 vaccination in Australia from more than 62 million doses administered. By contrast, more than 12,000 Australians have died from or with the virus.
The claim was made in a Facebook video (screenshot here) from a group called Australian Vaccination-risks Network (AVN), previously known as Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, which has a long history of making inaccurate and misleading claims about vaccines.
In the video, AVN legal advisor Julian Gillespie says: “Even at a figure of, the nominal figure of 900 deaths, when we properly look at the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, it’s clear to us … that we’ve got a situation in Australia that these injectables have killed more people than have died actually, actually died, from COVID” (video mark 6 min 41 sec).
Mr Gillespie also claims official figures about deaths following vaccination are significantly underestimated and his “conservative” estimate is at least 9000 Australians have died from COVID-19 jabs.
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