![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # Incorrect information on deaths occurring after vaccination against Covid-19 17.11.2021, 11:19 (CET) In a Facebook post, which dates from November 14, 2021, an Internet user publishes a table supposed to show the number of deaths linked to vaccines against Covid-19 in Europe (archived here). ## Assessment This table is absolutely not correct because the figures presented are out of their context. These concern reports of adverse effects occurred in vaccinated people, but who are not necessarily related to vaccines. ## Facts In the Facebook publication, the Internet user shares a table which would come from the “European Effects Reports Database adverse events likely to be linked to the use of medications. It is supposed to include the number of deaths linked to vaccination against Covid-19 in the EU, where four vaccines have been approved. It can be read that 14,303 people died after receiving the vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech, 8,386 after injection of Moderna vaccine, 6,070 with that of AstraZeneca and finally 1,793 with the Janssen vaccine (Johnson & Johnson). We would therefore have a total of 30,552 post-vaccination deaths. But this table does not come from the database in question, implemented place by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The numbers there taken appear on the platform. However, we are talking here about effects suspected and unproven undesirables. The figures given in the table actually correspond to the addition of data available on the European site. To find them, you have to go on the page which lists the reports of adverse effects, choose the letter “C” for “Covid-19” then the tab “number of individual cases for a selected reaction”, and finally “fatal outcome”. Contrary to what the table tries to imply, the information presented on the database are not a confirmation that there exists a link between vaccines and the effects observed. These figures “concern suspected side effects, that is to say medical events that were observed after the administration of vaccines against Covid-19, but which are not necessarily linked to or caused by the vaccine. These events may have been caused by another illness or be associated with another medication taken by the patient at the same time,” warns the database on its information page dedicated to Covid-19. Furthermore, the database may contain duplicates, and will not indicate never the total number of cases reported with a fatal outcome. “It provides the number of cases reported as fatal for reaction groups specific (e.g. heart disorders) and for reactions specific (e.g. myocardial infarction). Given that a case individual may contain more than one suspected side effect, the sum of the number of fatal cases per reaction group will always be greater than the number total fatal cases,” she emphasizes. Since the start of the pandemic, figures from the EMA database are often taken up and decontextualized to reinforce a certain fear and distrust of vaccines. A painting of the same kind had also made the subject of several dpa checks (notably here, here and here). We can also add that a vaccine is subjected to a whole battery of tests before being placed on the market. And once it has been approved, it is reassessed regularly. In the case of vaccines against Covid-19, the EMA continues to monitor their safety. On its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) speaks of “the effects benign side effects” of vaccines. “Severe and long-lasting side effects are extremely rare” can we read in particular as an answer to the question “ Do vaccines have side effects? » (Inventory as of 11/17/2021) ## Links Facebook post (archived version) European database (archived version) Database Warning (Archived Version) DPA verification I dpa II verification dpa III verification EMA on vaccine safety (archived version) WHO advice on vaccine side effects (archived version) Contact the dpa fact-checking team: factchecking- belgium@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
30552 deaths after vaccination against Covid19 in Europe