evidence: Fact Check: Covid-19 Vaccines Did Not Kill 17 Million People. Claims Being Made Are False [...] A claim circulating on social media (archived here) alleges that 17 million people have died as a result of COVID-19 vaccination. The claim gained traction after this specific number was mentioned in a recent conversation between former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein. The latter said, "I was recently at a conference in Romania on the COVID crisis and so there was a lot of work trying to unpack what we actually understand. And I saw a credible estimate of something like 17 million deaths globally from this technology." [...] There is no data to support the claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of 17 million people. The non-peer-reviewed material published by the non-profit organization Correlation Research in the Public Interest is flawed. Its co-author has previously made anti-vaccination claims. Published data confirms that the overall mortality rate coincides with an increase in COVID-19 cases. Hence we have marked the claim as false.