{"id":14796,"date":"2026-05-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:48:25","slug":"covid-shots-55-times-deadlier-than-the-flu-jab-and-they-knew-it-ron-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=14796","title":{"rendered":"COVID Shots 55 Times Deadlier Than the Flu Jab And They Knew It: Ron Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifezette.com\/author\/lifezettenewsstaff\/\">LifeZette News Staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pointed to data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as part of his concerns about reported death rates following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, citing figures that he said warranted further scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During remarks discussing vaccine safety data, Johnson referenced long-term trends in reported deaths associated with vaccines, noting that figures remained relatively stable for decades before a sharp increase in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe data depicted on these charts alone should have raised the alert level to Defcon one,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described a chart showing reported deaths in VAERS since the system was established in 1990, explaining that the numbers historically remained in the low hundreds each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow this first chart is showing deaths reported on VAERS since the inception of VAERS,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can see starting in 1990, deaths were approximately a couple 100 per year, anaphylactic shock, those types of things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson then pointed to the reported increase in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, deaths spiked to 21,631,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0LifeZette News Staff Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pointed to data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as part of his concerns about reported death rates following the rollout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,761,939,1362,972,973,974,607,608,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adverse-event-reporting","category-concerns","category-safety-studies","category-vaccine-deaths","category-vaccine-enhanced-disease","category-vaccine-failure","category-vaccine-long-term-safety","category-vaccine-news","category-vaccine-safety","category-vares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14799,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}