Ron Johnson just torched the claim that COVID vaccines “saved 3.2 million American lives

In a fiery Senate exchange, Sen. Ron Johnson just torched the claim that COVID vaccines “saved 3.2 million American lives.”

“That’s propaganda — not science.”

He exposed the so-called Commonwealth Fund study as a blog post — not peer-reviewed science, not based on real data.

Then came the receipts:

CDC Data
2019: 2.85M deaths

2020: 3.38M deaths (no vaccines)

2021: 3.46M deaths (mass vaccination)

If vaccines “saved” 3.2 million lives, total deaths should’ve topped 5 million. They didn’t.

Johnson didn’t stop there: he accused the NIH of blocking early treatments, pushing failed protocols, and rewriting science to fit politics.

“They told people to go home and pray they didn’t need a ventilator.”

The numbers don’t lie.
But the narrative might.