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You don't know of any deaths because most physicians and the media steadfastly refuse to attribute any to the vaccine. There are thousands of reports in VAERS, many of them of deaths in very young, healthy people hours or days after getting the vaccine.

It's not the Pfizer vaccine, but the AstraZeneca vaccine has been publicly acknowledged as the cause of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw's death.

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If you even want to cite VAERS as a reliable source of _anything_ it means you don't even know the first thing about the topic.

It is not reliable, for sure, and we don't know by what factor or which way the error goes.

It might show ten times the real number, or half the real number. That would be either 1'700 people or 34'000 dead in the US alone.

I wouldn't discount the lower limit either, 1'700 is still a lot and far from a small risk.

You've essentially admitted it's an unreliable source that can be complete fiction for all we know. It's not validated by any medical institution, no one has jumped to defend it, none of the claims can be independently validated. I might as well just take my pandemic advice from a radio talk show host.

You're just robotically repeating fact-check talking points. Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine and, for all its problems, the reason they're waving gigantic "DO NOT LOOK HERE" signs around VAERS is to give people like you an excuse to keep your heads firmly planted in the sand.

> Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine

Cite your sources, you have a wildly outlandish claim that is beyond the expert consensus on the topic.

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