Posted on 01/23/2023 2:29:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Mis- and disinformation have been prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent months anti-vax activists and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a new phrase to help their cause: “died suddenly.” Anti-vaxxers hoping to convince people that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among younger people have invoked the term while trying to exploit tragic events like the death of soccer journalist Grant Wahl, or Damar Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game. Though that theory has no scientific evidence to support it, the “died suddenly” rhetoric has gained a lot of traction on social media. What makes COVID misinformation so spreadable, and how can public health officials combat the rumors?
On Friday’s episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and data scientist, about the rise of the viral dog whistle “died suddenly.” Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Lizzie O’Leary: In your latest newsletter, you had a heading that said “Deaths by Vaccination Status: It’s not even close.” What does the data show?
Katelyn Jetelina: Underlying all these rumors is the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful, in an intention to possibly depopulate the planet. If that had any merit, we would expect that those who are vaccinated are more likely to die than those are unvaccinated. And we are clearly seeing the opposite. The U.K. CDC released data evaluating all deaths—car accidents, strokes, COVID-19—by vaccination status. And when you visually display that on a graph, there is a clear distinction between the unvaccinated dying (of whatever cause) much higher than the vaccinated, leading to confirm that vaccines continue to save lives.
How big a data set are we talking about?
We have more evidence than any other vaccine or any other disease in the history of
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I don’t know about favorite phrase, but it is certainly a fitting phrase.
About the author:
O’Leary graduated cum laude from Williams College with degrees in English and Art History.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_O‘Leary
That art history degree makes her an expert on the clot shot.
Fixed it.
It's the LAAP-dog media that uses that phrase in their news reports, everyone else just repeats the phrase.
-PJ
“Excess Deaths” is a pretty good phrase as well.
I think I found the problem
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“Lizzie O’Leary has worked with CNN, NPR, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo News, ABC and the BBC. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Williams College”
I agree strongly with your tag line!
Did we hear of young people, “dying suddenly”, before 2020, in the news?
Thanks!
Actually the media are the ones using the “died suddenly” phrase so don’t get get your pants in a knot ‘cause I’m repeating it.......LIZZIE
Over the last 3 years, how many of these conspiracy theories combined with misinformation and disinformation have turned out to be 100% accurate ??
Just about everything concerning Covid for starters.
Here is a question to the people that are for the COVID Vaccines: How many injections worldwide have been administered and how many people have died as a result of the vaccination?
It seems there’s a group of people who find ‘ANTI-VAXXER!’ to be their favorite word…. Wonder who that might be….
Mis Dis info; safe and effective.
They are desperate.
So it’s a matter of degrees.
Other ways of dying are more than the vax, so don’t worry.
Not sure of that term particularly but there were reports of it happening. It was so out of the ordinarily rare and everyone wanted to get to the bottom of what the actual cause was no matter how long it took.
Now it seems to happen very frequently and no one seem to care why. Could part of it be because we are looking and searching for these stories? I'm sure that is a small part of it but a real issue that no one seems to care what the cause was and after a while the stories disappear into thin air.
“Died Suddenly” is the Propaganda Media’s term they use instead of “Died by the Jim Jones Jab”.
In the year 2008, 317,283 US people aged 25-34 died, all causes.
In that same year of 2008, 241,740 US people aged 15-24 died, all causes.
The population is higher now.
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