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.

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“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.

“In 2021, deaths spiked to 21,631,” he said.

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“Now, again, I didn't need a mathematical algorithm to tell me there's something going on here.”

VAERS is a federal reporting system designed to collect information about adverse events that occur after vaccination.

Reports submitted to the system are not necessarily verified as being caused by a vaccine, but are used as an early warning tool to identify potential safety signals.

Johnson acknowledged that some have attributed the higher number of reports in 2021 to the scale of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, during which billions of doses were administered across the United States and globally.

“And by the way, a lot of people say, Well, that's because we administered billions of doses,” Johnson said.

He said his office sought additional information from federal health agencies to compare death rates across different vaccines.

“One of the letters I wrote to the CDC showed the rate of death per dose compared it to the flu,” Johnson said, referencing seasonal influenza vaccines as a point of comparison.

According to Johnson, the comparison showed a notable difference.

“Which is about point four six deaths per million doses,” he said. “We calculated this, the covid injection was 25.5 deaths per million doses.”

He concluded by emphasizing the disparity he said was reflected in those figures.

“That's a 55 fold increase over the deaths for the flu vaccine,” Johnson said.

“So something was going on here.”

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