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Ron Johnson: “A Harvard study commissioned by the CDC says about 1% of…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 10:21

They were screaming at it. On average, 280 deaths per year associated with the vaccine prior to Covid. Since 1990, 280 deaths. On average, 20, 21, 21,000 deaths. Currently there's 39,000 deaths. A Harvard study commissioned by the CDC says about 1% of adverse events are reported to VAERS. So the numbers are far higher. 24% of those 39,000 deaths occur on the day of vaccination within one or two days. And yet you have CDC officials say, we just didn't see safety signals. (10:21–10:27)

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Asserts that only a small fraction of adverse events are reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

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