Thousands of Averted Covid Deaths in Israel: Science Fiction

Brownstone Institute

By EYAL SHAHAR   

JUNE 10, 2023

In a paper published in Lancet Infect Dis, Haas and his colleagues argued that the Pfizer vaccine averted over 5,000 deaths in Israel in the first quarter of 2021, during the Covid wave that coincided with the first vaccination campaign (Figure 1).

I will show here that their claim is false. If any deaths have been averted at all, the number is far from their estimate — undetectable in mortality statistics.

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