New study refutes WHO: Corona vaccines saved ten times fewer lives

According to a new study , coronavirus vaccines have saved significantly fewer lives than originally thought—about ten times fewer. The analysis was published last week in the scientific journal JAMA Health Forum.

Last year, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) claimed that coronavirus vaccines prevented 14.4 million deaths worldwide in the first year alone. Some estimates put that number at nearly 20 million.

Nine out of ten prevented deaths affect people over 60

However, new modeling by researchers at Stanford University and Italian scientists found that while vaccines have saved lives, the actual number is much more conservative—at about 2.5 million lives worldwide during the entire pandemic.

The analysis shows that nine out of ten prevented deaths affected people over 60, while only 299 people under 20 and 1,808 people aged 20 to 30 were saved worldwide. A total of 5,400 people needed to be vaccinated to save a single life—but for those under 30, this number rose to 100,000 vaccinations, the study states.

"I think early estimates were based on parameters whose values are inconsistent with our current understanding," explained John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and first author of the study, according to The Telegraph. "It makes sense in principle to focus on the population groups that will benefit most from vaccination and exclude those where the risk-benefit ratio is questionable. Aggressive vaccination mandates and the rush to vaccinate everyone at all costs were probably a bad idea."

In the new study, experts used global population data, information on vaccine effectiveness, and infection mortality rates to estimate how many people would have died from Covid-19 before or after vaccinations.

The research team concludes that previous models may have been based on overly pessimistic mortality rates and overly optimistic assumptions about vaccine effectiveness. Furthermore, these studies failed to take into account how quickly vaccine protection wanes. Previous estimates may also have underestimated the number of people who were already unknowingly infected with COVID-19 when they received the vaccine.

Corona vaccines: Studies on side effects and deaths are lacking

People over 70 accounted for nearly 70 percent of the lives saved, while those aged 60 to 70 accounted for another 20 percent. In comparison, those under 20 contributed only 0.01 percent and those aged 20 to 30 contributed only 0.07 percent to the lives saved.

Despite studies on the lives saved, there is still a lack of comprehensive analyses of the vaccines' side effects, such as myocarditis and pericarditis or thrombosis, which in some cases even led to death. A tragic example is the case of 18-year-old Camilla Canepa from Genoa, who died of thrombosis in June 2021 after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination.