evidence: Morris also said he had analyzed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data on the frequency of deaths among Medicare patients within two weeks of vaccination, and found that the rate in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines was "roughly equivalent" to the rate in 2018 to 2020 following the influenza vaccine. Both of these reflect a background rate of death. [...] If the CMS data is accurate, Morris told us, it provides "rock solid evidence" that a larger proportion of deaths that occur after vaccination were reported to VAERS in 2021 for the COVID-19 vaccines than in prior years with other vaccines. [...] Wagner, Bayliss. "Fact check: Vaccine Adverse Reporting System isn’t proof of COVID-19 vaccine deaths." USA Today. 28 Jun 2021.