Anna, as I always told my students in the research methods course I taught in university: anecdotes are never a replacement for data in statistical analysis. Anecdotes can offer context to statistics, but by themselves, they cannot replace the records collected by hospitals, morgues, and health agencies. Data from Canada and the UK is quite valid and reliable, we have every reason to trust it. The UK has very high infection numbers in the 4th wave due to the more infectious Delta variant, but their death count remains substantially lower than previous waves. The variable that changed is the vaccination rate. Canada is the same, our death count is much lower, and the overwhelming majority of decedents were unvaccinated. Two reports of deaths through media and rumblings on social media do not invalidate the mountain of data that suggests that vaccines are saving lives and preventing infection.