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. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS reports associated with Varicella, DTaP, Hep B, Hib, and MMR vaccines through December, 2003. it varies but in the past 4 weeks, about 0.9-1 per 100k *per day* pic.twitter.com/NVz2MXmFIx. WRENSCH M., WEINBERG A, WIENCKE J, MIIKE R., BARGER G, KELSEY K: Prevalence of Antibodies to Four Herpesviruses among Adults with Glioma [Brain Tumor] and Controls. (1986) 8(1):78-80. and transmitted securely. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. Children's deaths of any kind are rare, researchers noted. This prevents researchers from determining "hot lots" since calculation of the number of adverse reactions per lot is not possible. She underwent a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with the rare and more serious collagenous colitis. No competing interests, Medical Veritas International (MVI), P.O. According to open Vaers, almost 9k have died from the vaccine in the US. 2003 Jan 24;52(1):1-24. Now, add this to the mix, for comparison: how many people are dying of COVID in the US per day? Thus, if you vaccinated 40,000 80+ year olds, you would expect about 80 deaths out of that group within one week *just by coincidence*. The true figure is likely to be significantly higher as Keyhole excludes Instagram and private Facebook groups from its analytics. The mother says that she felt humiliated into allowing her daughter to receive the varicella vaccine. Shortly afterwards, D began having joint pains, eczema and allergies. Would you like email updates of new search results? Unsurprisingly, RFK Jr. fails to mention that the BMJ article to which he refers is a BMJ Rapid Response, which is basically a comment section that is not peer-reviewed that cranks love to use to post their ramblings and then cite them as though they were legitimate articles in The BMJ. 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. Basically, in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, everything old is new again, and antivaxxers have used the same old playbook to misuse VAERS reports in the age of COVID-19. febrile 100,000 person-years. 3. Heres Seth Trueger: how many Americans typically die per day? Read more at NPR. The lot number associated with each vaccine is recorded in the VAERS data base. She was admitted to a hospital for rehydration after losing 12 lbs or more than 10% of her previous healthy weight. 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. 13. Have you heard the claim that only 1% of serious vaccine reactions are reported to VAERS? 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. (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. I fully expect that, just as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for use in children, antivaxxers will start claiming that the vaccine causes autism and SIDS. The 4chan forums rose to prominence in the Trump era as the original source of widespread conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate, which alleged a satanic child-exploitation run by the Democratic Party, and QAnon, the pretext for the January 6 insurrection and now serves as a hotbed of anti-vaccine misinformation. can they dismiss placebo-controlled trials that raise serious That one earned a much belated Godzilla facepalm: When Godzilla gives you the facepalm, you know the failure is monstrous. 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. 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 is a statement of fact that there are over 3,000 reports of deaths in VAERS among people who received a Covid vaccine. Thats not to say that only severe or serious adverse reactions should be reported. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. , has stirred controversy in recent days over his concerns about COVID-19 vaccine safety. and Nobel Prize winner turned homeopathy believer, antivaxxer, autism quack, and now COVID-19 crank, Luc Montagnier. So how are antivaxxers weaponizing VAERS? ESMAELI-GUTSTEIN B, WINKELMAN JZ: Uveitis associated with varicella virus vaccine. Epub 2020 Jul 21. Chan School of Public Health. What did their final report have to say about developing and implementing such a system? The reason, to reiterate, is that VAERS is unique among US vaccine safety reporting systems in that it is a passive surveillance system. A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. Here is the statement, with a bit of context: Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. This boy was born on June 30, 1998 and received the varicella vaccination on June 29, 2000. (1997) 99(2):263-264. After the investigations that lead to the licensing of a vaccine, the mainstay of post-marketing surveillance is the mandated reporting of adverse events following vaccines, a reporting system jointly overseen by CDC and FDA was created, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and by the Food and Drug Administration. 0.6, 239. A man who was vaccinated against varicella in 1995 developed encephalomyloneuritis and required hospitalization for months. If Laidler hadnt been honest, he could have insisted that the report remain, and it would have. Paediatr. 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. Dr. Gorski's full information can be found here, along with information for patients. VAERS is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Facebook has further sought to stem the spread of misinformation by providing public health agencies with free advertising space and by directing users to their local health authorities. 2021 May;30(5):602-609. doi: 10.1002/pds.5196. JAMA. RAVKINA LI, MATSEVICH GR: Morphological changes in the central nervous system in post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis developing after chickenpox vaccination in children. If you are a potential patient and found this page through a Google search, please check out Dr. Gorski's biographical information, disclaimers regarding his writings, and notice to patients here. trial that found a 5-fold KD risk associated with RotaTeq--RR=4.9; 95% CI VAERS reports vary in quality and completeness and under-reporting, especially of mild and self-limiting AEs, appears common. The degree of underreporting varies widely. As I will show, antivaxxers are playing an old game with new vaccines. Careers. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. It should therefore be no surprise that antivaxxers are now using VAERS to try to portray COVID-19 vaccines as harmful or even deadly. Does anyone think that deaths after COVID-19 vaccination are going to be underreported by a factor of 100? A VAERS report was filed January 30, 2000. Vaccine. 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. It is the Vaccine Adverse Event. 2022 Jul 26;23(15):8235. doi: 10.3390/ijms23158235. However, real data transmissions of non-physician approved reports to the CDC was unable to commence, as by the end of this project, the . The startling statistics are being shared far and wide by anti-vaccination activists and concerned readers alike. 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. Share on Facebook, opens a new window The sorts of tactics antivaxxers are using now have surprised and befuddled a lot of pro-science advocates, mainly because so many of them have not been paying attention to the antivaccine movement, in particular its longstanding tactics and its basis in conspiracy theories. Oncol. 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. 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. VAERS cannot determine if a vaccine was the specific cause of an adverse event. * Authors report that a healthy 5-year-old girl developed HZ in the dermatome supplied by the ophthalmic branch of the fifth cranial nerve 40 months after varicella vaccination. Facebook and Instagram announced earlier this year they would take steps to ban the spreading of vaccine misinformation on their platforms. She was told that her collagenous colitis was autoimmune in nature. Here users can create their own charts and graphs. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the CDC and FDA is the nationwide early warning system that monitors the safety of vaccines once they are licensed or cleared for use by the FDA. But definitely its being underreported.. So lets get back to RFK Jr. and his deceptive article by the Childrens Health Defense Team. Luo C, Jiang Y, Du J, Tong J, Huang J, Lo Re V 3rd, Ellenberg SS, Poland GA, Tao C, Chen Y. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. possibilities of With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continuing apace, so are the efforts of antivaxxers to portray the vaccines as dangerous. Table 1 presents a comparison of the number of adverse reactions reported to VAERS for the varicella vaccine with 4 other different vaccines. On any given 12-hour shift, I am seeing patients be admitted to the ICU within days or weeks of receiving the vaccines after suffering . Her physician was of the opinion that a virus probably triggered her autoimmune response. suggest a novel finding that adults who have not had prior varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection (including onset of chickenpox) are more likely to have gliomas (brain tumors) than adults who have had prior infection [10]. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors. Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.. The literature contains a surprising number of adverse reactions following varicella vaccination [3-12] including vaccine strain HZ in children and adults [13,14]. 2, 3 Reasons for clinician under-reporting might include failure to associate an acute health event to recent vaccines, lack of awareness of VAERS, the misperception that only serious events should be reported, or lack of The answer is 0.000015. Her older brother reacted to all vaccinations and developed late-onset autism following his MMR. Epub 2020 Jun 27. Disclaimer 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. The patient's nausea decreased and her fever subsided. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. The CDC blocked both the data collection by the Harvard Pilgrim group, and also any implementation that could have followed from their findings. endstream endobj 285 0 obj <>/Metadata 22 0 R/Outlines 32 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/Pages 282 0 R/StructTreeRoot 49 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 286 0 obj <>/Font<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Type/Page>> endobj 287 0 obj <>stream annually Vaccine (1999) 17(4):327-329. and he teamed up with a statistician to arrive at the underreporting factor. From 2012 through 2016, vaccine providers submitted 32% of U.S. VAERS reports; vaccine manufacturers submitted 41%; patients . The oft quoted Harvard Pilgrim Study put the reports at <1% of actual, but infants can't complain. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the This time, the pain was more severe. Data are updated on a monthly basis. Background: 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. It would be a dramatic improvement over the current health-care-worker-initiated reports. 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. Both thought that she could have Guillian-barre syndrome. Physicians and patients If confirmed by a larger trial, the KD In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . The .gov means its official. Her physician reassured her by saying: Do you think I would give the vaccination to my own children if I thought it wasn't safe? Her physician also informed her that state law mandates chickenpox vaccination but never told her that she could withhold her consent. Image by Mat Napo is licensed under the Unsplash License. Nonetheless, previous reports demonstrate substantial case capture for clinically severe adverse events (AEs), including 47% of intussusception cases after rotavirus vaccine, and 68% of vaccine associated paralytic polio after oral polio vaccine. During the same period about 88 million U.S. children passed through the 0-5 age group; More than 485 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from Dec. 14, 2020 . providers, patients, or family members. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. As with all antivax talking points, its meant to deceive. way the data are used by public health officials and the vaccine industry For example, one study found that up to 68% of cases of vaccine-associated poliomyelitis (a table injury) were reported to VAERS, while less than 1% of episodes of rash following the MMR vaccine were reported. Voices for Vaccines, How I Went From Dressing Up As Measles to Hoping for My COVID Vaccines, April 28, 2021. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and by the Food and Drug Administration. Mercolas reference #7 is superfluous, because it also references #6. Between 2000-2020, VAERS received 1,005 reports of death after vaccination, according to a USA TODAY analysis of VAERS data. Methods: We estimated VAERS reporting rates following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS. However, the CDC and FDA have never required the vaccine manufacturers to publicly divulge the number of vaccines contained in a given lot. On June 12, 2003 (age 5), he had a unilateral shingles eruption on the back of his neck. In other words, it would have dramatically increased both the accuracy and the number of vaccine injuries reported to VAERS. The U.S. event underreporting. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. Background Users can access data pertaining to clinically significant medical events that occur after vaccination in the United States. Acta. Again, these are back-of-the-envelope calculations, but theyre close enough to make the point. : Vaccine-associated uveitis following COVID-19 vaccination: vaccine adverse event reporting system database analysis. Keywords: A CDC database that was mostly unknown except to a small segment of the population is now regularly in the news. (1970) 70(10):1465-1471. The weaponization of VAERS by anti-vaccine activists serves as a reminder that having access to more information does not always lead to better decisions. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. Ds mother was initially fearful and refused the varicella vaccine for her daughter. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. Raw data is available from 1990- May 14, 2013 and can be downloaded using ZIP files or Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files. Vaers records 321 cases of myocarditis within five days of receiving a vaccination, falling to almost zero by 10 days. 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