Dozens of people were killed by COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, death certificates show.
COVID-19 vaccination is listed on 26 death certificates across five states, an Epoch Times review found.
That includes a 78-year-old Minnesota man who died on Jan. 5, 2021. The man suffered sudden cardiac death just 10 hours after receiving a second COVID-19 vaccine dose.
In another case, a 60-year-old Massachusetts man died on Jan. 16, 2021, with conditions including thrombocytopenia after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. Thrombocytopenia means low levels of blood platelets.
Certifiers listed COVID-19 vaccination on part one of some certificates. According to guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), part one of a certificate is for causes that lead directly to death.
In other instances, the vaccination was listed in part two. That part is for “other significant conditions that contributed to the death,” according to instructions from the CDC for medical examiners and coroners.
Certifiers are told to include in part one or two “any disease, abnormality, injury, or poisoning, if believed to have adversely affected the decedent.”
“Significant diseases or injuries that did not contribute to death, even if present, should not be listed,” Dr. Marcus Nashelsky, a medical examiner in Iowa, wrote in a review of the guidance.
The CDC did not respond to requests for comment on the number of deaths it now says COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed to.
The agency has maintained as recently as July that the number is nine.
Currently, CDC has identified 9 reports of death where the available evidence suggests that J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed to the deaths,” the CDC’s Freedom of Information Act office told The Epoch Times on June 13.
A CDC webpage said that authorities had reviewed reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which the CDC helps manage, and supporting materials such as death certificates.
“Continued monitoring has identified nine deaths causally associated with J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccination,” the page stated.
The CDC updated the page on July 13 to remove that language. The page currently does not list a number of deaths following COVID-19 vaccination that authorities have confirmed as causally associated, or connected.
By Zachary Stieber
