Does Dr. Vernon Coleman give proof COVID-19 "jabs should be stopped now"? No, that's not true: He offers no evidence for why the COVID-19 vaccines should be stopped and cites unverified statistics about deaths from the vaccines. As of this writing on June 1, 2021, there have been no documented deaths due to the Pfizer, Moderna or J&J/Janssen vaccines.
The claim appeared as a Brand New Tube video published on June 1, 2021, titled "Proof the Covid-19 Jabs Should be Stopped Now" (archived here), which opens:
In this astonishingly destructive video, Dr Vernon Coleman produces new evidence and annihilates the argument in favour of giving covid-19 jabs. He proves conclusively that all those advocating the covid-19 'vaccine
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Proof the Covid-19 Jabs Should be Stopped Now
In this astonishingly destructive video, Dr Vernon Coleman produces new evidence and annihilates the argument in favour of giving covid-19 jabs. He proves conclusively that all those advocating the covid-19 'vaccine
Coleman, a one-time general practitioner who relinquished his medical license, spends 26 minutes claiming COVID-19 "jabs should be stopped now" without providing any actual proof or evidence why and he uses unverified numbers in his claims.
At 5:50 in the video Coleman says:
... up until the end of May 2021 these vaccines had been responsible for 4,406 deaths in the United States and 1,213 deaths in the UK. Those are official government figures and they are low because less than 1 in 100 adverse events in the U.S. is reported.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received 4,863 reports of death among people who received a vaccine. VAERS reports are not verified and do not provide sufficient evidence to determine whether a death was caused by a vaccine.
The website for VAERS clearly states the system's uses and limitations. The site reads:
A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.
The CDC wrote;
A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines. However, recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and a rare and serious adverse event--blood clots with low platelets--which has caused deaths.
As Lead Stories has previously reported, it's statistically inevitable that some people will get sick and die of unrelated causes after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
At 10:14 in the video Coleman claims:
All this is particularly relevant when you remember that COVID-19 has a mortality rate which is much the same as that for the ordinary flu.
COVID-19 does not have a mortality rate similar to the flu. The number of people who died in the United States from COVID-19 was 594,000 as of May 31, 2021, which is almost 10 times as high as the 60,000 people who died in the 2017-18 flu season.
