I posted two separate analysis which demonstrated this was a lie. I could have found even more. They went through the figures carefully. Check them out.
This was a LIE. The fact that this lie has been repeated and repeated and repeated does not make it true.
The idea that it somehow "makes sense" is nonsense.
Wasn't a similar number quoted by a doctor who fronted the American Senate but it was discovered he took the headline number of deaths and failed to do an analysis what they actually died from, i.e a vaccination or as a result of other causes? When a study was done the deaths were less than 500 I think which is normal with any vaccination. Not that normal is good of course but all vaccines carry some risk albeit small.
Gees, people would really freak today if the original polio vaccine was on offer.