Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pointed to data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as part of his concerns about reported death rates following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, citing figures that he said warranted further scrutiny.
During remarks discussing vaccine safety data, Johnson referenced long-term trends in reported deaths associated with vaccines, noting that figures remained relatively stable for decades before a sharp increase in 2021.
“The data depicted on these charts alone should have raised the alert level to Defcon one,” Johnson said.
He described a chart showing reported deaths in VAERS since the system was established in 1990, explaining that the numbers historically remained in the low hundreds each year.
“Now this first chart is showing deaths reported on VAERS since the inception of VAERS,” Johnson said.
“You can see starting in 1990, deaths were approximately a couple 100 per year, anaphylactic shock, those types of things.”
Johnson then pointed to the reported increase in 2021.
