• No published study reports a 150‑fold increase in suicidal‑thought risk after COVID‑19 vaccination relative to flu shots; the figure does not appear in any peer‑reviewed or pre‑print analysis of VAERS or other safety databases¹.
• The claim appears to misrepresent a 2025 VAERS‑based study that actually found a proportional reporting ratio (PRR) of 80.1 for suicide/homicide adverse events versus influenza vaccines, not 150¹.
• That same study reported PRRs of 115 for general psychiatric illness and 118 for cognitive impairment, but even these are not 150 and are measures of reporting disproportionality, not actual risk¹.
• VAERS is a passive, unverified reporting system; raw PRR calculations based on different timeframes (48 months for COVID‑19 vaccines vs. 420 months for all others) cannot establish causation or true incidence, and public‑health experts explicitly caution against using VAERS this way²³.
• Researchers and major health authorities state there is no evidence that COVID‑19 vaccination causes depression or suicidality; the observed associations are confounded by stimulated reporting, surveillance bias, and the fact that VAERS accepts any submitted report without proof of causation³².

Overall validity: 0%

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