SEN. TUBERVILLE: The VAERS reported that the number of people dying after or following the covid vaccine is actually in the thousands.

Now this is what I’m hearing. I’ll give you a chance to refute that or confirm it here. You know, is this true? Are we having that many peple die after taking one of these vaccines?

CDC DIRECTOR WALENSKY: Sen Tuberville, thank you for that question. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a mandatory system of any adverse event that happens after being vaccinated, so if you get hit by a car, tragically, after getting vaccinated that gets reported in the VAERS system.

So, the vaccines are incredibly safe, they protect us against omicron, they protect us against delta, they protect us against covid. They don’t protect us against every other form of mortality out there.

SEN. TUBERVILLE: Do we keep numbers of people that died following … taking this vaccine? Do we have any idea — I’m just asking. … Is there any number count? Do we keep records on that?

CDC DIRECTOR WALENSKY: Absolutely yes. I couldn’t get you the absolute number off top of my head, but our staff could absolutely get back in touch with you. We collect those data.

SEN TUBERVILLE: Do you know Dr. Fauci? You have any clue on that?

FAUCI: [unintelligible…] I don’t have a number but I think part of the confusion is that when you do a reporting, if you get vaccinated and you walk out and get hit by a car (chuckles) that is considered a death. That’s the thing that gets confusing, that everything that happens after the vaccination, even if you die of something completely obviously unrelated, it’s considered a death. So if I had metastic cancer, got vaccinated and died two weeks later, that’s a death that gets counted.

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