Tucson Standard

At least 20 people the age of 97 died after taking the COVID-19 vaccine across the US, according to the National Vaccine Information Center.

Both authorized vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, were both approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use in December 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

While patients have passed away after receiving a dose of the two authorized vaccines, data from the National Vaccine Information Centre does not prove or disprove a direct link between receiving the vaccine and death.

Autopsies are not ordered in many cases. Reasons for those who've died are varied and unique, including "massive heart attack" several days after receiving the vaccine to suffering intense flu-like symptoms within hours of receiving the vaccine.

Though the FDA has judged the vaccines as safe and granted emergency approval, full and rigorous studies to the extent of other vaccine trials have not yet been completed.The number of fatalities in most states after a COVID-19 vaccine was administered hover around one or two per cent.

Dr. David Martin, founder and chairman of M-CAM Inc, claimed in an interview these vaccines are not a vaccine at all; they are “gene therapy.” “It’s not a vaccination,” he said. “It’s not a prohibiting infection. It’s not a prohibiting transmission device. It’s a means by which your body is conscripted to make the toxin that then allegedly your body somehow gets used to dealing with, but unlike a vaccine, which is to trigger the immune response, this is to trigger the creation of the toxin.”

Figures accurate as of March 19.