John Oliver on Vaccine Harm: Denies

The claim: COVID vaccines do more harm than good, or are designed to harm.

2021-05-02: “the safety risk of vaccines is rigorously and publicly analyzed, not secretly buried and somehow leaked to the human football’s neon scream hour,” source
2021-05-02: “The key thing to remember is that no side effect of the vaccine is worse than the alternative: COVID, a disease that has killed over 500,000 people in the U.S. alone while, once again, to date, the vaccine has been proven to kill exactly zero,” source
2021-05-03: “Our best way out of this mess long term is clearly vaccines,” argued John Oliver. “These vaccines can save not just your life but the lives of people around you” source
2021-05-03: “Correlation isn't causation. The vaccine protects against COVID, not the concept of mortality. It is weird that I have to clarify this but you are, in fact, going to die one day, Mike .” source