The posts claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are a plan for depopulation, which have recently been circulating on social media, turn out to be false. Evidence to date has shown that COVID-19 vaccines have led to a decrease in deaths and serious illnesses across the United States.
The text of these posts with more than 1,200 likes and 5,000 shares reads: "Imagine a depopulation plan so diabolical and so perfect that it could happen without anyone even noticing? Or even better, make the herd ignore their fate and actively participate in it? Now you're watching it in real time."
Links to these posts:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=628157314825339&set=a.105231647117911&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10226666308866761&set=a.1114153336915&type=3&theater
The US has suffered several waves of the disease, with a total of 605,480 lives lost since the start of 2020. At the peak of the US epidemic in January 2021, more than 3,300 people were dying on average each day. A total of 33,940,575 cases have been reported, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data (as of July 7, 2021) (here).
US COVID-19 cases have risen by about 11% over the past week, almost entirely among people who have not been vaccinated, officials said on July 8, 2021, as the highly infectious Delta variant becomes the dominant type of coronavirus in the country (hereAbout 93% of COVID-19 cases have occurred in counties with vaccination rates of less than 40%, said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky.
However, deaths have declined since vaccination efforts began in the country (here), but several recent deaths have been attributed to the newer, more dangerous Delta variant (hereExperts continue to advise that those who are vaccinated are more protected from the Delta variant (here).
Nearly all deaths and hospitalizations across the country (US) have occurred among unvaccinated people, said Jeff Zients, who leads the White House COVID-19 response team. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said in an interview on US television NBC on July 4, 2021, that 99.2% of recent COVID-19 deaths were among those who were not vaccinated, calling the deaths “avoidable and preventable.” (here(at 6:50).
Full Reuters article (here).