Since COVID-19 vaccines first became available in late 2020, vaccine skeptics have twisted public health data to say the vaccines are actually harmful to recipients.
One such claim comes from a Nov. 24 article from The Expose, a website that has published multiple pieces of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
“Secret CDC Report reveals at least 1.1 Million Americans have 'Died Suddenly' since the COVID Vaccine roll-out & another Government Report proves the COVID Vaccines are to blame,” reads the article's headline.
The piece was shared more than 700 times on Facebook in a month, according to the social media analytics tool CrowdTangle.
But the article is incorrect. The data source it cites does not list any cause for reported excess deaths in the U.S. Experts say COVID-19 infections make up most of those deaths.
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The Expose article is based on data collected by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development from publicly available CDC reports that show there were more than 1 million excess deaths during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report compares the average number of deaths in a given week from 2015-2019 to the period between December 2020, when vaccines first were authorized in the U.S., and the week of Sept. 25, 2022. It does...
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