The most commonly cited statistic among anti-vaccine groups is death following vaccination.
Graphics from anti-vaccine proponents frequently tick off the number of deaths directly reported in VAERS — without noting the reports there have not been investigated or verified as causally linked to an immunization.
Those numbers even made it onto the show of Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson last month.
In a segment on the supposed dangers of COVID-19 vaccines, Carlson incorrectly claimed the system had recorded thousands of unexplained deaths.
"It's clear that what is happening now is not even close to normal," he told his audience.
And antivaxxes say there are conspiracies against them.
