The 'aggressive mandate' of Covid vaccines has been blasted as a 'bad idea' by experts after a new study revealed it saved less lives than predicted.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) claimed that the jabs prevented 14.4million deaths just in the first year, with some estimating up to 20million.

However, new research by Stanford University and Italian doctors revealed the true number is closer to 2.5million.

The team estimated that nine out of ten prevented deaths were in the over-60s, while it only saved 299 people under the age of 20 and 1,808 youngsters between 20 and 30 globally.

John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the first author, said: 'Targeting the populations who would get the vast majority of the benefit and letting alone those with questionable risk-benefit and cost-benefit makes a lot of sense.