Tucker Carlson’s crusade against vaccines took an even more dangerous turn than usual on Wednesday, as he began baselessly speculating that COVID-19 vaccines cause death after people take them.
There is absolutely no evidence that supports this, but Tucker continued to peddle his misinformation anyway, speculating that people who died sometime after getting the vaccine died because of the vaccine.
Tucker Carlson has admitted on-air that he has been fully vaccinated, but then continued to speculate if the vaccine kills people.
Tucker referred to VAERS, or the Vaccine Adverse Effect Reporting System, which is run by the CDC and tracks people’s reactions to the vaccine doses. He didn’t put a number to it, but told Fox viewers Wednesday night that there are people dying after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, and implied this is an issue that’s being ignored.
In fact there is data on this topic, and it proves that there’s a minuscule portion of the vaccinated population that have had adverse reactions to the drug. Reuters recently fact-checked this issue, and found that out of over 130 million COVID-19 vaccines given out so far, only 0.0017% have died. It is also unclear what led to those deaths but health officials say there’s no evidence they died because of the vaccine.
There’s also no evidence that mass amounts of people getting the vaccine could contribute to cutting down the population, or kill people.
(Excerpt) Read more in: The Wrap