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Gorski, MD, PhD Managing Editor, unnecessary because COVID-19 is not deadly, 329 Deaths + 9,516 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show, Mark and David Geiers epically bad study, similar back-of-the-envelope calculations, Excess mortality during the pandemic has been VERY high, falling for an antivaccine conspiracy theory, against public health and any collective action, surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician, Melanoma: A Pseudoepidemic of Skin Cancer Prompts New Screening Recommendations. First, you must understand that, as I alluded to above, VAERS isnt intended to give an accurate estimate of the frequency of various adverse events after vaccination. Later in the article, CHD starts listing all the anecdotes and other reports that antivaxxers have been flogging. We know according to a Harvard study that VAERS is only thought to represent 1% of actual injuries." VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare Accessibility 2023;130: S0161-6420(22)00672-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.08.027. Each of the three occurrences of the shingles rash was on his left side. Clinical descriptions of five different serious adverse affects that followed varicella vaccination are given below. (I realize that that 22 million figure includes an additional week of vaccinations and does not break down how many people had received one or both doses, but this is a back-of-the-envelope) calculation. (1986) 8(1):78-80. 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. Practically no one is going to report an adverse reaction like a sore arm or transient fever to VAERS, but you know damned well theyll report more serious ones, such as a seizure. Table 1. The reason he is concerned is that this is in contrast to the last five flu seasons, over the course of which there have been 119 reports of deaths to VAERS among people who received a seasonal flu vaccine. During As I like to say, the greatest strength of VAERS is that anyone can report anything to it, but simultaneously the greatest weakness of VAERS is that anyone can report anything to it. Vaers records 321 cases of myocarditis within five days of receiving a vaccination, falling to almost zero by 10 days. The degree of underreporting varies widely. and transmitted securely. So beim Kupfer, dessen Abbau [] During the 18-year period from 1990 through 2007 just 88 cases of Kawasaki Disease in children under 5 were reported to VAERS. Case A (Ophthalmology. Information needs to be . Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. , has stirred controversy in recent days over his concerns about COVID-19 vaccine safety. This 3.5-year-old boy from Georgia who had no pre-existing conditions, received a dose of varicella vaccine on May 12, 1995. In fact I am unable to find any study of reporting efficiency to VAERS that would justify the 1% estimate as being either an over- or under-estimation of the percent of injuries being reported. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded Harvard Medical School a $1 million grant to track VAERS reporting at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare for three years and develop an automated reporting system that would . 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. She worked as a research coordinator in the infectious disease unit of a Medical School. The only old antivaccine lie or distortion that I havent seen used against COVID-19 vaccines yet is the claim that they cause autism or sudden infant death syndrome. Given that anyone can report any suspected adverse event, VAERS is intended to be an early warning system. Thats 40 days, if you count December 14, 2020. so wed expect 96/100,000 deaths during that period. Baton Rouge Louisiana RN Whistleblower on Underreporting of Serious Adverse Effects of Covid Vaccines; Letter to US Senator Johnson: . This time, the pain was more severe. Although the CDC claims to make attempts to verify the data, it is difficult to see how publishing reports of gunshot wounds related to the COVID-19 vaccine is tenable for an organization so reliant on public trust. Mealeys Litigation Report, Thimerosal & Vaccines (April, 2003) Volume 1, Issue #10. So where is that information in this study? The research, which assessed the safety of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, is based on analysis of data from nearly 2 million individuals in Israel and represents one of the largest real-world assessments of COVID-19 vaccine safety to date. If youve been reading this blog a while, you can probably guess. Nine months later on March 10, 2004 he had a recurrence of shingles affecting the left nipple and the left side of the back. So how are antivaxxers weaponizing VAERS? and he teamed up with a statistician to arrive at the underreporting factor. J. The combined efforts of communication scientists, health services researchers, and others can enhance the development and implementation of long-term, sustainable plans for gathering reliable real-time data about facilitators of and barriers to vaccine acceptance, translating those data into practical solutions. Hearing disorder following COVID-19 vaccination: A pharmacovigilance analysis using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The point of Harvard Pilgram Health Care, Inc. getting that grant was to develop a much more efficient system for capturing vaccine injuries, a system that would be built into electronic health records systems and so could flag temporal relationships between vaccinations being dispensed and symptoms subsequently reported. The article then regurgitates RFK Jr.s quote that he used to deny coincidence: Coincidence is turning out to be quite lethal to COVID vaccine recipients, said Childrens Health Defense (CHD) Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. If the clinical trials are good predictors, the rate of coincidence is likely to increase dramatically after the second shot.. Nothing coming before or after even suggests what that number is based upon. Epub 2021 Feb 23. A 17-month-old female toddler received the varicella vaccination on March 20, 1996. At this age, infants are at greatest risk for certain medical adverse events, including high fevers, seizures, Many physicians consider vaccination extremely safe and parents or patients are not provided with information regarding potential adverse outcomes. The brain tumor pathogenesis is not fully understood at this time. This type of propaganda is so harmful to our County residents, with The Mountaineer reporting 84 people who have lost their lives and over 3600 who have contracted Covid-19 right here in Haywood. Oncol. The primary goals of VAERS is to detect new, unusual, or rare adverse events; monitor increases in known adverse events; Identify potential patient risk factors for particular types of adverse events; identify vaccine lots with increased numbers of types of adverse events; and assess the safety of newly licensed vaccines. VAERS reports associated with Varicella, DTaP, Hep B, Hib, and MMR vaccines through December, 2003. So there is no way to explain the excess deaths which are effectively over 640,000 for a 41 underreporting factor. Methods: We estimated VAERS reporting rates following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS. Risk increases with each dose of vaccine as well. Rather, it was always intended to serve as an early warning system, a canary in the coalmine, so to speak. Exogenous exposures to wild type varicella have previously contributed a significant immunologic boosting effect that helps suppress the reactivation of herpes-zoster. How Case "C" An adult female, age 47, became disabled following varicella vaccination. Before . A Harvard Vaccine Injury Study conducted from 2007 to 2010, reveals on page 6 a fewer than 1 % report rate in VAERS. At the end of the document is not a list of supporting citations, but only a list of publications by the organization on the topic of the automated adverse event reporting. As for that last part about VAERS having been an abject failure, to support that claim RFK Jr. cites this: A critic familiar with VAERS shortcomings bluntly condemned VAERS in The BMJ as nothing more than window dressing, and a part of U.S. authorities systematic effort to reassure/deceive us about vaccine safety.. 13. We had initially planned to evaluate the system by comparing adverse event findings to those in the Vaccine Safety Datalink project however, due to restructuring at CDC and consequent delays in terms of decision making, it became impossible to move forward with discussions regarding the evaluation of ESP:VAERS performance in a randomized trial, and compare ESP:VAERS performance to existing VAERS and Vaccine Safety Datalink data. Acta. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S., the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), reported 181 deaths a . cases were reported to VAERS. Thats not to say that only severe or serious adverse reactions should be reported. J. Infect. Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - HHS.gov, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Still, its limitations aside, VAERS has its place if you understand its intended purpose. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) states, "VAERS data are limited by underreporting and unknown sensitivity of the reporting system, making it difficult to compare adverse event rates following vaccination reported to VAERS with those from complications following natural disease. It simply contains whatever people have voluntarily reported. VAERS is a government database managed by the Centers for Disease. * Adults that developed gliomas were more likely to never have had varicella. It is a reference to substantiate claims that the CDC has no interest in making reports of vaccine injury either more accurate or more comprehensive. Based on the law of large numbers, in which very small percentages translate into a large number of actual cases or people, we would expect a lot more deaths within a couple of weeks after vaccination by random chance alone. Claims made by the VAERS database now form the foundation of a global online misinformation campaign which to-date has garnered little attention. Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes. 2022 Nov;47(11):1789-1795. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13767. As Skeptical Raptor notes, it was due to a certificate error: The problem is the SSL certificate was generated for vaers.hhs.gov but he is going to http://www.vaers.hhs.gov. adverse The Team mentions Dr. Gregory Michaels and his death from immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), which has not been shown to be related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Here is the statement, with a bit of context: Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. To test the correlations found in VAERS requires different systems, systems such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) or others, which are active safety monitoring databases in which investigators actively scan real medical records and insurance claims data to seek increases in frequencies of adverse events after vaccination and try to determine if there is a real association. Her joint pains became episodic but more intense during the attacks and she experienced some muscle weakness on and off. The term underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. BRAUN MM, MOOTREY GT, SEWARD JF, RIDER LG, KRAUSE PR: Postlicensure safety surveillance for varicella vaccine. An HPR Keyhole analysis of social media indicates that over a 24-hour period in March, an expected 350,000 people had viewed or interacted with anti-vaccine information originating from the VAERS database. However, the CDC and FDA have never required the vaccine manufacturers to publicly divulge the number of vaccines contained in a given lot. Underreporting is a limitation common to passive surveillance systems, including the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) that monitors the safety of U.S.-licensed vaccines. Methods: HHS needs a certificate that covers both vaers.hhs.gov and http://www.vaers.hhs.gov. 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. So, OK whatever the number is, its not 6,000. Users are claiming that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deleted reports of 6,000 deaths from the U.S. This prevents researchers from determining "hot lots" since calculation of the number of adverse reactions per lot is not possible. Signals and trends of Guillain-Barr syndrome after the introduction of live-attenuated vaccines for influenza in the US and South Korean adverse event reporting systems. Whoever wrote this article is clearly not an expert, and this article is clearly meant to be disinformation, not science. GERECITANO J, FRIEDMAN-KIEN A, CHAZEN GD: Allergic reaction to varicella vaccine. Harvard Business Review noted that the previous vaccine development record was . In normal times Norway typically sees 45 deaths among nursing residents each week. Im referring, of course, to antivaxxers resurrecting old antivaccine tropes, dusting them off, and updating them for the age of COVID. way the data are used by public health officials and the vaccine industry 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. 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. The U.S. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine No competing interests, Copyright 2023 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Womens, childrens & adolescents health. The coding of VAERS reports requires careful interpretation. She underwent a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with the rare and more serious collagenous colitis. It is a statement of fact that there are over 3,000 reports of deaths in VAERS among people who received a Covid vaccine. I dont know. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. It is the Vaccine Adverse Event. 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. By the sixth month post-vaccination, she was seen by a neurologist and a physiatrist. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. 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. With the authority of the CDC, whose official seal adorns the webpage, VAERS packs a shock. As Dr. Vincent Iannelli points out: Still, although reports to VAERS are underreported, they are almost certainly not underreported by as much as some folks believe. According to open Vaers, almost 9k have died from the vaccine in the US. They also allow users to verify that they are connected to the real web site, rather than a hackers web site. 2003 Jan 24;52(1):1-24. MATSUBARA K, NIGAMI H, HARIGAYA H, BABA K: Herpes zoster in a normal child after varicella vaccination. 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