Tue Jan 11, 2022 – 9:16 am EST
HANNOVER, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent German professor of economics is using official data to argue that COVID-19 vaccines have failed to reduce the number of excess deaths last year, showing in fact the number has increased.
Stefan Homburg is a German professor of economics and former director of Public Finance at the University of Hannover who gained notoriety in 2020 for his criticism of Germany’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, particularly lockdown measures and the vaccine mandates.
Homburg frequently takes to Twitter and uses official data to debunk claims by government officials and the mainstream media regarding the alleged efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.
In one of his latest tweets, published Thursday, Homburg pointed to data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany showing that the number of deaths in Germany for the year 2021 has increased by 43,000 compared to 2020.
“The illusion: [the vaccine] protects from severe illness and death,” he wrote. “The reality: an enormous increase in mortality in 2021 compared to the unprotected ‘pandemic year’ 2020.”
In the comment section of his tweet, Homburg explained that the strong increase in mortality cannot be explained by mere demographic factors such as an ageing population, as this would only account for “a few extra thousand
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