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Justin Fox

More Young Americans Are Dying, But Not From Vaccines

The increase started well before Covid-19 shots arrived, according to mortality data, and has plateaued since.

The data don’t dispute that Covid vaccines are safe and effective.

The data don’t dispute that Covid vaccines are safe and effective.

Photographer: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

For most people, the on-field cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during the Jan. 2 Monday Night Football game was a frightening potential tragedy followed by what is now looking like a happy ending. A vocal minority, though, seized on it as purported evidence of the terrible toll mRNA Covid-19 vaccines have exacted on otherwise healthy young Americans.

The medical establishment and the mainstream media have generally dismissed such concerns out of hand. But whenever I hear them, I ask myself, “I wonder if there’s any evidence of that in the mortality data?”