New Report: ‘Garbage Science’ Behind Claims COVID Shots Saved Millions

A new preprint by Canadian researchers Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., and Joseph Hickey, Ph.D., challenges the…

Children's Health Defense

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

A new report by Canadian researchers challenges widely cited claims that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives in the U.S.

The authors of a preprint paper published this week by Correlation, a Canadian nonprofit research organization, argue that the claims are based on modelling studies that use flawed assumptions resulting in “fantastic and unverifiable” conclusions.

For example, Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. — in interviews and in his 2024 congressional testimony — cited a 2022 study by Meagan Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., touting 3.2 million lives saved by the vaccines…