evidence: A TikTok video liked more than 936,000 times claims that COVID-19 vaccines have killed some 6,000 people in the United States. "The Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System shows that 5,946 people have died because of the vaccine," the user states, referring to a government database called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. [...] During that period, VAERS received 6,490 reports of death (0.0019%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.