With claims continuing to circulate around the COVID-19 vaccine being the cause of healthy people dying, health experts are speaking up, saying that no medical evidence proves this to be true.
Dr. Michael Osterholm is among those speaking up, and he joined News Talk 830 WCCO’s Chad Hartman to discuss the false claims.
When it comes to whether or not data could come out supporting the claims that people have died as a result of receiving the vaccine, Osterholm says the data is already here, and it shows no such thing.
“This is one of those situations where we don’t need any more data,” Osterholm says. “The data is very compelling already. That the kind of illnesses we see associated with the vaccine — in terms of myocarditis — basically are not causing deaths. They are causing some people to become mildly ill, to moderately ill for a short period of time.”
Osterholm says that while some have suffered from myocarditis as a result of receiving the vaccine, it is nowhere near the number of people who have died from COVID-19 that were unvaccinated.
In comparison, the doctor said that the vaccine causing myocarditis is like a person who dies because their seatbelt traps them in their car after an accident. He says in that situation it wouldn’t be acceptable to say, “we got to stop using seat belts.”
Now, Osterholm says health experts need to speak up and disparage these rumors, as they will do nothing but cause harm.
“It’s one of those issues where every sudden event that results in death or some kind of cardiac issue, people are now saying 'It’s due to the COVID-19 vaccine' without any information,” Osterholm said. “And that story gets repeated enough times, and people start to believe it.”
Attempting to put all concerns to bed, Osterholm says there is no evidence or data that has come out, or will come out, that will dissuade him from advising people to get vaccinated as COVID-19 continues to take the lives of hundreds of Americans every day.
“I can tell you right now. Ask me what I would recommend to my loved ones. Ask me what I would recommend to the people who matter most to me. Get the vaccine,” Osterholm said.
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