Covid vaccine narrative challenged by new research: ‘Millions of lives saved’ is demonstrably false
By Yaakov Ophir, Yaffa Shir-Raz, Shay Zakov, and Peter A. McCullough | Brownstone Institute
Two years have passed since the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic, yet the topic of vaccination remains highly sensitive in both public and scientific discourse. Attempts to question the legitimacy of the mass vaccination campaign or to raise concerns about potential harms are often met with a moral red line: the widely repeated claim that “Covid-19 vaccines have saved millions and millions of lives.”
Remarkably, this assertion was treated as established fact even during the recent U.S. Senate PSI hearing on May 21, 2025, which focused on vaccine-related adverse outcomes.1 Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal opened the hearing with the following statement:
As we talk about the side...