300 0 obj <>stream With the rollout of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 finally starting to result in tens of millions of people receiving the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, with newer vaccines likely to be introduced in the coming months, the predictions that I (and many others) made months ago are coming to pass. I dont know. Never mind that, as I discussed, there was no evidence that these deaths, all of which were among very elderly nursing home residents, were caused by the vaccine and there was no evidence of an increase in the baseline mortality rate of nursing home residents in Norway, which averages around 400 per week. Its basically against public health and any collective action to protect public health. understand that minor side effects of vaccinations often include this kind of discomfort, as well as low fevers. My topic here is not VAERS generally, but a number that recurs often in discussions about the vaccine injury reports VAERS contains. Her symptoms worsened at the age of 6. 112:495, 2003. Objectives: . Maintained/created by: Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug AdministrationWebsite: http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/indexGeographic unit of data: U.S National, U.S. State, Keywords: adverse event, CDC, FDA, Reporting, side effects, vaccination, vaccine, Users can access data pertaining to clinically significant medical events that occur after vaccination in the United States. endstream endobj startxref Whos Really Responsible for Climate Change? cases were reported to VAERS. To reach such a critical mass, the federal government is in a race against time. 20.8 per 100,000 person-years. In the letter, the lawmakers said a whistleblower alleged in sworn testimony that deaths and injuries recorded in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System "may be underreported by a factor of five.". In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of up to two years of sometimes debilitating pain, intermittent missed work and income, and the trials of disability. (2003) 135(3):415-417. Am. Prior research has shown that only a fraction of adverse events are. Wrensch et al. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. He took Acyclovir Oral Suspension (200mg/5ml): Two teaspoons 4 times a day for 5 days. The second is: What is the baseline rate for such adverse events in the population studied? Adverse events following pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent and seasonal influenza vaccinations during the 2009-2010 season in the active component U.S. military and civilians aged 17-44years reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. "'Underreporting' is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS," HHS says on its website. The people behind the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) have admitted that "fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported" in an early grant: native advertising "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. That claim is based on an old study about drug reactions and was not specific to vaccines. The degree of underreporting varies widely. Healthcare providers are required by law to report to VAERS: However, real data transmissions of non-physician approved reports to the CDC was unable to commence, as by the end of this project, the . 2021 May;30(5):602-609. doi: 10.1002/pds.5196. The CDC told Reuters. HHS needs a certificate that covers both vaers.hhs.gov and http://www.vaers.hhs.gov. J Clin Pharm Ther. In fact, the original article is by Peter Doshi and represents him falling for an antivaccine conspiracy theory that somehow VAERS was being made inaccessible to suppress reports. Users are claiming that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deleted reports of 6,000 deaths from the U.S. Harvard Business Review noted that the previous vaccine development record was . ]Jw/d}n?`nGDzh,5crb?|IlO87m:8S.A);B9+k liSC`y2WW0Z=+'kv$n6I,%AMe13em1e63?d[@f=PaVkAV{2"CeU(H3'S?V;5U n3`(*9u&PY)Ug*Q&ObFMRY;Leq,*]&kIegxKw) h_2YQ)HGA&[?/f4Fkk;k&5#{@5d5KM=I&In'$v:j\C5sft4 2] 5 He remains permanently disabled. (1999) 127(6):733-734. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) form : version 2.0 (proposed) October 30, 2014 By Shimabukuro, Tom T. Series: ACIP meeting Vaccine Safety English CITE Download Document Details Related Documents You May Also Like Details: Personal Author: Shimabukuro, Tom T. Corporate Authors: Local Australian health authorities blasted the spreading of the false reports telling residents to take-off their tin-foil hats.. health The bottom line is that 285 deaths after COVID-19 vaccination reported to VAERS in a timeframe of 40 days is actually a very small number. The degree No competing interests, Medical Veritas International (MVI), P.O. . Zhou W, Pool V, Iskander JK, English-Bullard R, Ball R, Wise RP, Haber P, Pless RP, Mootrey G, Ellenberg SS, Braun MM, Chen RT. 8. (1997) 126(10):833-834. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Dis. A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), was to construct the below flow of data in order to support the first two Aims: Figure 1. The VAERS dataset also appears to be immune from Facebooks anti-misinformation protocols and remains a prominent feature of the anti-vaccine campaigning repertoire. The government is making a sincere effort to make sure their web sites are more secure, but sometimes they mess upSSL certificates facilitate encryption of traffic between the user and web site. Table 1 presents a comparison of the number of adverse reactions reported to VAERS for the varicella vaccine with 4 other different vaccines. Chan School of Public Health. So I suppose I shouldnt be surprised that antivaxxers are now weaponizing the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database to try to blame all manner of adverse events on vaccines, whether there is evidence of causation or not. 8600 Rockville Pike Its not just vaccines and autism, either. When the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was established in 1990, its creators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would have scarcely imagined the government program would become a leading vector for vaccine misinformation amidst a global pandemic. S. S. Korsakova. From 2012 through 2016, vaccine providers submitted 32% of U.S. VAERS reports; vaccine manufacturers submitted 41%; patients . 2022 Harvard Political Review. Careers. Eight days after vaccination, she developed a fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, malaise and dizziness. Online ahead of print. She received a first dose of the vaccine in March and the second in May 2001. And yet, publicly hosted on a CDC web server are claims that COVID-19 vaccines have caused gunshot wounds, with the CDC helpfully listing shareable buttons at the top of the page for your vaccine misinformation platform of choice: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and email for those wanting to mass-email their office colleagues. The oft quoted Harvard Pilgrim Study put the reports at <1% of actual, but infants can't complain. Prediction of post-vaccination Guillain-Barr syndrome using data from a passive surveillance system. The global reach of the CDC VAERS misinformation should not be underestimated, with print copies of the data having been placed into letterboxes as far away as Brisbane, Australia. J. Pediatr. Disclaimer Studies have found reporting rates on VAERS of 47% for cases of intussusception cases after the rotavirus vaccine and 68% for paralytic polio after the oral polio vaccine, while rates ranged from. and nurses do not know about VAERS and what is required to be reported. "Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. As of today, the online database alleges 1349 U.S. deaths attributable to COVID-19 vaccines. And the CDCs role in the dissemination of vaccine misinformation, unwilling though it may be, is attracting increasing scrutiny as it jeopardises what President Biden calls his administrations most important battle: the global coronavirus vaccine rollout. More generally: The chance of dying in an average week for those over 80 is about 0.2% or 1 in 500. She developed diarrhea shortly after the second dose and by November 2001, she was quite ill and had serious intestinal difficulties. Here users can create their own charts and graphs. Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.. Reference to the Harvard study regarding the 1% figure adds legitimacy it doesnt deserve. Thats not to say that only severe or serious adverse reactions should be reported. VAERS sensitivity for capturing anaphylaxis after seven different vaccines ranged from 13 to 76%; sensitivity for capturing GBS after three different vaccines ranged from 12 to 64%. In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . (2001) 154(2):161-165. (1993) 35(4):345-347. In normal times Norway typically sees 45 deaths among nursing residents each week. The phenomenon of molecular mimicry explains why some people's immune system will mistakenly respond to the measles antigen, for instance, in the vaccine because some of its amino acid groupings, its epitopes, are the same as those in the protein of a previously encountered viral antigen." While the CDC and FDA disclaimers go to great lengths to point out that reports within VAERS are not verified causal claims, in a world where users absorb headline information and where small-scale disinformation campaigns have been shown to have calamitous consequences, one must question whether publishing VAERS vaccine data in its current form achieves more harm than good. This brings us to the second question: Whats the baseline rate? VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare On the other hand, more serious and unexpected medical events are probably more likely to be reported than minor He developed convulsions the following day, was hospitalized, and reportedly recovered. Thats 40 days, if you count December 14, 2020. so wed expect 96/100,000 deaths during that period. It is not just social media actors who have sought to capitalise on the CDCs implicit endorsement of VAERS content, with a Keyhole media analysis showing the biggest boosters of the VAERS site to be the notorious 4chan forums and the Russia Today state media organization. So beim Kupfer, dessen Abbau [] Indeed, Facebook posts seen by the HPR with hundreds of engagements include the same verbatim instructions, copy and pasted, for users to disregard disclaimers. This is true, and EXACTLY why scientists prefer to measure EXCESS MORTALITY to assess the true toll of the pandemicwhich counts how many deaths from any cause there have been ABOVE AND BEYOND what is expected. 2023 Feb;130(2):179-186. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.08.027. It's a shame because VAERS plays a vital role in detecting important but rare reactions caused by vaccines. 2023 Jan 4:S0161-6420(22)00929-0. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.11.023. Misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine abounds on the web, but no site established by an anti-vaccine activist could hope to have the reach and recognisability of the CDC website. Human Rabies Prevention --- United States, 2008 Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices NOTE: A Continuing Education Activity has been approved for this report and will be included in the print and electronic format on May 23, 2008, in Vol. Zh. A VAERS report was filed January 30, 2000. I know that this discussion began with The VAERS dataset was created to manage reports of vaccine-associated side effects. It is bewildering, therefore, Now, add this to the mix, for comparison: how many people are dying of COVID in the US per day? First, the denominator, which CHD provides without using it appropriately: According to the Washington Post, as of Jan. 29, 22 million people in the U.S. had received one or both doses of a COVID vaccine. VAERS accepts reports from anyone, including patients, family members, healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers. Universal Varicella Vaccination program assumptions that (1) a single dose offered long-term immunity, and (2) there is no immunologically-mediated link between varicella incidence and herpes-zoster incidence are seriously flawed. To determine the sensitivity of VAERS in capturing AE reports of anaphylaxis and Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS) following vaccination and whether this is consistent with previous estimates for other severe AEs. And of course my favorite example is the VAERS excess deaths. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. It might be true that such a small percentage of adverse events is reported for self-limited minor events, such as sore arms, fever, nausea, and the like. : Vaccine-associated uveitis following COVID-19 vaccination: vaccine adverse event reporting system database analysis. It was the waiting that drew the attention of the Stockholm County Council. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. In a yearlong period from August 2021 to July 2022, 821 children ages 0 to 19 died from covid-19 at a rate of 1 per 100,000. Vaccine. can they dismiss placebo-controlled trials that raise serious David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery and member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology at Wayne State University. They also allow users to verify that they are connected to the real web site, rather than a hackers web site. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. The U.S. Competing interests: The Harvard Pilgraim study is here for all to see: https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf, Naturopathic physician, licensed acupuncturist, medical researcher. Still, it's a good way to detect safety signals that weren't detected during premarket testing or clinical trials . Mealeys Litigation Report, Thimerosal & Vaccines (April, 2003) Volume 1, Issue #10. We estimated VAERS reporting rates following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS. Source information from U.S. Government VAERS data base, 1990-2003, http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb True, someone did contact him to question it. Data is also available through the CDC wonder interface by clicking on the CDC wonder link at the top of the page. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine. Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors. (1995) 37(5):648-650. J. Later in the article, CHD starts listing all the anecdotes and other reports that antivaxxers have been flogging. Ann. Moreover, the CDC and FDA do not restrict what people can report, as long as it happened at some point following a vaccination. If confirmed by a larger trial, the KD Keywords: Whoever wrote this article is clearly not an expert, and this article is clearly meant to be disinformation, not science. PMC Am. 100,000 person-years. It relies on people to submit reports of adverse reactions to vaccines; it doesnt actively look for them, as active surveillance systems do. But since VAERS watches for unexpected or unusual patterns in adverse event reports, it still works even if each and every side effect isnt reported. Yet the presumption of significantly higher real numbers is supported by a 2010 Harvard Pilgrim study which found that "fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries" are reported on VAERS. In December, CHD and Kennedy wrote to former FDA director, Dr. David Kessler, co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and President Bidens version of Operation Warp Speed. An EMG revealed involvement in an ulnar distribution. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 requires health professionals and vaccine manufacturers to report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services specific adverse events that occur after the administration of routinely recommended vaccines. So lets get back to RFK Jr. and his deceptive article by the Childrens Health Defense Team. There were nearly 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents in the U.S. between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, according to data from the Stop AAPI Hate coalition released this week. 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