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‘What is the real number of people who apparently have been killed or injured?’

Fox News host Tucker Carlson prompted a sharp reaction from critics Wednesday night after addressing the issue of how many people have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Carlson explained he is “completely in favor of vulnerable people taking vaccines” (The CDC profile is a person older than 70 with an average of 2.6 “comorbidities,” such as diabetes and heart disease). But he argued that the vast majority of the population, with a survival rate of more than 99%, should have as much information as possible to make a risk assessment.

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In a typical flu season, more than 160 million Americans are vaccinated and only a small number die after receiving a shot. in 2019, it was 203 people and in 2018 it was 119.

“Every death is tragic, but big picture, we don’t consider those numbers disqualifying,” he said. “We keep giving flu shots, and very few people complain about it.”

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But the question is how do those numbers compare to the death rate from the experimental, emergency-use coronavirus vaccines.

Between late December 2020 and April 23, a total of 3,362 people were reported to have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., an average of 30 people every day, according to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or VAERS.

VAERS is managed by the CDC and the FDA, Carlson noted, and “has received a lot of criticism over the years, some of it founded.”

Carlson’s segment was blasted Thursday by Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, who called it “reckless” and “dangerous.”

He said the claim that 30 people are dying daily from COVID-19 vaccines is “absolutely, 100 percent false.”

“The problem is that it continues to stir up this vaccine hesitance, or outright vaccine reluctance. It is so frustrating,” Gupta said.

PolitiFact argued that VAERS is an “open system, where anyone can submit a report.” And VAERS warns users that its reports shouldn’t be used “on their own to determine whether a vaccine caused or contributed to a particular illness.”

However, Carlson pointed out in his segment that some critics have argued that VAERS undercounts vaccine injuries.

He cited a report submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 concluding that “fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported” by the VAERS system.

“So what is the real number of people who apparently have been killed or injured by the vaccine?” Carlson asked. “Well, we don’t know that number. Nobody does, and we’re not going to speculate about it.

“But it’s clear that what is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal. It’s not even close to what we’ve seen in previous years with previous vaccines,” he said.

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