Covid-19 vaccines are not responsible for "one billion deaths" worldwide since they were rolled out to combat the coronavirus, contrary to false claims widely shared on social media. Global population data shows there were around 200 million deaths globally from the onset of the pandemic until the end of 2022 with experts projecting around 60 million deaths from all causes in 2023. Publicly available health information shows that only a miniscule percentage of deaths among people who had been vaccinated against Covid-19 could be attributed to the jabs.

"[One] billion people around the world are now dead (poisoned) since the rollout of the covid jab," reads the opening line of a Facebook post shared more than 8,000 times since it was posted here on October 27, 2023.

The post continues: "For the love of God, please do not get vaccinated I told them, even if it means you get sacked from your job, find a way to survive as it will only be for a short period of time."

The post is accompanied by a video making a similar claim from The People's Voice, a website AFP has repeatedly fact-checked for promoting false claims here, here and here.

The same video was also shared by Facebook users from around the globe here, here, here, here, here and here.

Scientists raced to develop a vaccine against Covid-19 with the World Health Organization (WHO) issuing its first emergency use validation on December 31, 2020 (archived link).

A June 2022 study published in The Lancet found vaccines...

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