evidence: Analysis claiming to find COVID-19 vaccines killed 17 million people is highly flawed, doesn’t account for COVID-19 mortality surges [...] A claim that COVID-19 vaccines have killed 17 million people appeared in many social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) in late September 2023. [...] Rancourt et al. thus concluded that the overall vDFR for the 17 countries analyzed "would imply 17.0 ± 0.5 million COVID-19 vaccine deaths worldwide […] This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed (0.213 ± 0.006) % of the world population (1 death per 470 living persons, in less than 3 years), and did not measurably prevent any deaths". It is this calculation that provides the basis for this claim.