Number of COVID vaccine injuries reported to VAERS surpasses 50,000, CDC data show

Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the number of injuries and deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID vaccines revealed steadily rising numbers, but no new trends. VAERS is the primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.

Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received to the system as of Friday of the previous week. Today’s data show that between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 26, a total of 50,861 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 2,249 deaths — an increase of 199 over the previous seven days — and 7,726 serious injuries, up 631 over the same time period.

Of the 2,249 deaths reported as of March 26, 28% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, 19% occurred within 24 hours and 43% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

In the U.S., 136.7 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of March 26.

This week’s VAERS data show:

19% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.
45% of those who died were male, 43% were female and the remaining death reports did not include gender of the deceased.
The average age of those who died was 77.7 and the youngest death was an 18-year-old.
As of March 26, 341 pregnant women had reported adverse events related to COVID vaccines, including 104 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.
Of the 578 cases of Bell’s Palsy reported, 63% of cases were reported after Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations — almost twice as many as reported (36%) following vaccination with the Moderna vaccine. Seven cases of Bell’s Palsy were reported with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine (1%).
There were 2,578 reports of anaphylaxis, with 53% of cases attributed to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 44% to Moderna and 3% to J&J vaccine, which was rolled out in the U.S. on March 2.
Using a broadened search for any reference to anaphylaxis in chart notes resulted in 15,193 reports, with 52% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, 45% to Moderna and 3% to J&J. With each vaccine, nearly 42% of anaphylactic reports occurred in people aged 17-44.

According to the CDC’s website, “the CDC follows up on any report of death to request additional information and learn more about what occurred and to determine whether the death was a result of the vaccine or unrelated.”

To date, the only information the CDC has published related to the investigation of COVID vaccine-related deaths and how those investigations were conducted is a COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Update via the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, published Jan. 27.

An interview in MedPage Today highlighted the shortfalls of the post-marketing surveillance of the COVID vaccine. Aaron Kesselheim, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said we are seeing a lot of spontaneous reporting, a lack of formal post-approval studies because vaccines have only received Emergency Use Authorization and vaccines being given outside the healthcare systems — interfering with the ability to rigorously collect observational data.

Although the CDC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have various systems in place to monitor the safety of vaccines, they are not “up and running” and do not have adequate resources behind them, Kesselheim said.

According to Kesselheim, there’s essentially nobody keeping track of COVID adverse reactions in the U.S. and no long-term safety data, but emphasized that this new mRNA technology is “extremely effective and extremely safe.”

On March 8, The Defender contacted the CDC with questions about reported deaths and injuries related to COVID vaccines. We provided a written list of questions about how the CDC conducts investigations into reported deaths, the status of investigations on deaths reported in the media, if autopsies are being done and the standard for determining whether an injury is causally connected to a vaccine.

We also inquired about whether healthcare providers are reporting all injuries and deaths that might be connected to the COVID vaccine, and what education initiatives are in place to encourage and facilitate proper and accurate reporting.

It took the CDC 22 days to respond to our repeated inquiries. When someone did, the person told us the agency had never received the questions — even though the employees we talked to several times said their press officers were working through the list of questions and were reviewing the email we sent. We provided the questions again yesterday, and requested a response by April 7.

Breakthrough cases

On March 31, The Defender reported on the increasing number of “breakthrough cases” of COVID in fully vaccinated people. Washington, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, New York, California and Minnesota have all reported breakthrough cases of COVID, some of which have resulted in hospitalization and death. Investigations are underway to determine if there were problems with the vaccines or if people had been infected with a variant.

When asked about the increasing number of breakthrough cases during a White House press conference, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical advisor, said it is something they will take seriously and follow closely, but breakthrough infections happen with any vaccination.

CDC issues new travel guidance, vaccine passports stir controversyThe CDC today issued new travel guidance stating that fully vaccinated Americans traveling within the U.S. do not have to get tested for COVID before or after their trip, and do not need to self-quarantine when they return home.

On March 29, The Defender reported that the Biden administration and private companies are working to develop vaccine passports that would require Americans to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID as the country opens.

Dr. Naomi Wolf, founder and CEO of Daily Clout, said the passport system really isn’t about the vaccine. It’s about your data, and “once this rolls out you don’t have a choice about being part of the system.”

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said that vaccine credentials are a complete government overstep that will undermine public trust and substantially limit normal day-to-day essential activities. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said “vaccine passports are unconstitutional. Period.”

On March 26, New York launched a digital vaccine passport system known as Excelsior Pass that residents can use to prove they’ve been vaccinated or recently tested negative for infection. The New York system, built on IBM’s digital health pass platform, will be used at dozens of events, including arts and entertainment venues.

J&J makes headlines with manufacturing mix-up, report of severe allergic reaction

As The Defender reported April 1, 15 million doses of J&J’s vaccine failed quality control after workers at a Baltimore manufacturing plant negligently put an AstraZeneca ingredient in J&J’s COVID vaccine. The mix-up forced regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines and prompted an investigation by the FDA.

On March 31, Business Insider reported that a 74-year-old Virginia man suffered a rare reaction to J&J’s vaccine that caused a painful rash to spread across his entire body and skin to peel off. Richard Terrell told local news station WRIC he began suffering strange symptoms four days after receiving the vaccine.

“I began to feel a little discomfort in my armpit and then a few days later I began to get an itchy rash, and then after that I began to swell and my skin turned red,” Terrell said.

The rash spread to his entire body and his skin peeled off. He went to the emergency room, where doctors determined that he had experienced an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine.

AstraZeneca suspended in Germany and Canada

On March 31, The Defender reported that Germany indefinitely suspended use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine for anyone under 60 following advice from STIKO, the country’s independent vaccine committee and external experts.

The committee investigated reports of blood clots, some fatal, in people who received the vaccine and decided to give the vaccine only to people 60 or older unless they belong to a high-risk category where the benefits outweigh the risk of a serious side-effect.

As The Defender reported on March 30, several regions of Germany, including Berlin and Munich, had temporarily paused the vaccine for people under 60 after Germany’s vaccine regulator disclosed 31 cases of a rare brain blood clot, nine of which resulted in deaths. The decision was made as a precaution ahead of a meeting with national medical regulators scheduled for later in the day where it was decided to indefinitely suspend the vaccine.

On March 30, Canada announced it was suspending AstraZeneca’s vaccine for people under age 55 following concerns it might be linked to rare blood clots, The Defender reported.

Health Canada demanded AstraZeneca conduct a detailed study on the risks and benefits of its COVID vaccine across multiple age groups, and suspended the vaccine for younger groups pending the outcome of that review.

On March 24, Health Canada updated the product information for AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccines to warn of the risk of rare blood clots associated with low levels of blood platelets following vaccinations — a stark reversal from Canada’s former position.

Children’s Health Defense asks anyone who has experienced an adverse reaction, to any vaccine, to file a report following these three steps.

Dr Peter McCullough is a proponent of HCQ. I was one of the first people talking about HCQ because I had done my research. Specifically, I had already read this article before most people, doctors included, even realized what we were dealing with. I was talking about the temperature of a horseshoe bat in flight 4 months before anyone understood why that might be important. And then summer rolled around and the virus didn't miraculously "just go away". I knew it wouldn't because I knew it had evolved to coexist with a bat that generates a 106 degree temperature during flight. If 106 degrees doesn't kill it, an 85 degree summer day surely won't. I hypothesized that summer would slow it down but not stop it and that is exactly what happened.

I had assumed it was a ChiCom bioweapon from the beginning. The bat coronavirus was the perfect vehicle for a weapon due to its temperature stability. The more persistent a bio or chem weapon is, the more effective it is and Covid is clearly quite persistent. Chemical weapons lose persistence as temperature increases. The temp can't increase enough to really get rid of Covid in most places on earth. That makes it a great weapon. So I did a lot of research since I was going to be on the front line with with this bioweapon and I came across that article. I remembered it.

I work in the ER. I have plenty of opportunity to talk with many different physicians in many different specialties and I know a thing or two about doctors and how they think and practice. The truth is, I'm not overly inclined to defend a lot of them but, the fact is, they're in charge of the s*** show.

The point of all of this is this: we trialed HCQ at our facility and then, one day, they stopped using it. I asked one of the big shot hospitalists (who I actually do respect) if we were still using HCQ and he specifically told me: "no, it doesn't do anything so we have stopped using it". This was back when we were seeing the majority of our fatalities statewide and my county was no exception. So, when they stopped using HCQ, the mortality rate actually started to improve.

What they found to be more effective were strict, statewide lockdowns- in the nursing homes most especially and proning, especially with the rotoprone bed. It was proning and infection control that slowed down the deaths. HCQ had nothing to do with it. The same decrease in mortality that we saw was observed nationwide. It was the mitigation measures, the proning and good old fashioned doctoring. HCQ had nothing to do with it.

And while all this was going on, what were you doing? Denying the existence of Covid or the need to do anything about it? Claiming it was the flu? or a cold? Accusing hospitals of conspiring to defraud the government and get rid of Donald Trump?

If you would hypothesize a causation factor of any kind, we could look for it.
The historic numbers have been accounted for, but only because we cannot discern a pattern but never mind, how does it kill? (The 1/3 of deaths in first 48 hours is a something of a pattern if it stands scrutiny. I agree that every one of the stories is heartbreaking.)
The mechanism your excerpt suggests sounds very much like the mRNA vaccine works as proposed, so the suggestion is that vaccine kills by eliciting an immune system response.
Right?

Cathi if you could look at this link, sorry if it is too deep in medical terminology, and I’m not sure I would be very good in translating it into layman speak, but this connection between Fenfluramine derivatives and PAH is a perfect example of what I am asking for. The patterns were so clear and they were able to identify four categories of risk for many substances. The link:
https://err.ersjournals.com/content/22/129/244#:~:text=Fenfluramine%20derivatives%20like%20aminorex%20are,disease%20%5B9%E2%80%9311%5D.

I am not worth it so don’t waste your time on me, you are so kind. Please just keep your eyes on it and link me if something sounds enlightening such as your last excerpt. As I said I am all over the Oxford/AZ blood clot thing but that is more of a conventional vaccine and I understand it much better than the Moderna etc. I did look at all the links you provided and will check again on those Twitters to see if anything appears. If the smoking gun is found we will hear about it.

Oh I almost forgot! You said, “Prophylactic vaccines are given to healthy people. If they kill or seriously harm people...” This is perfectly reasonable to all. I see that as a separate issue and secondary issue. Debating whether the vaccines are necessary is just like debating whether we should have locked down and mandated masking. Well, it is simply too late for that now. If you are going to warn anyone about the safety of these vaccines, you must be specific and scientific. In other words, whether it should have or not, (It should NOT have!) the burden of proof is now upon anti-vaccine. God’s will be done.

“If you would hypothesize a causation factor of any kind, we could look for it.”

I honestly think you don’t understand this. The vaccine creates a powerful immune system reaction that lays low many people for a couple days and then they recover. Others don’t recover from the powerful immune system reaction....they expire (1/3 of the deaths within 48 hrs. as I told you.) Sometimes their kidneys fail; sometimes they develop IPT, brain bleed out, stroke, total organ failure, and a LOT of them have heart attacks, etc.

In VAERS these events are reported like this:

Vaccine administered with no immediate adverse reaction at 11:29am. Vaccine screening questions were completed and resident was not feeling sick and temperature was 98F. At approximately 1:30pm the resident passed away.
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My grandmother died a few hours after receiving the moderna covid vaccine booster 1. While I don?t expect that the events are related, the treating hospital did not acknowledge this and I wanted to be sure a report was made.
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Spouse awoke 12/20 and found spouse dead. Client was not transferred to hospital.
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Within 24 hours of receiving the vaccine, fever and respiratory distress, and anxiety developed requiring oxygen, morphine and ativan. My Mom passed away on the evening of 12/26/2020.
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RESIDENT CODED AND EXPIRED
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Death by massive heart attack. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine EUA
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Resident received vaccine per pharmacy at the facility at 5 pm. Approximately 6:45 resident found unresponsive and EMS contacted. Upon EMS arrival at facility, resident went into cardiac arrest, code initiated by EMS and transported to hospital. Resident expired at hospital at approximately 8 pm
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patient status started to decline within a few hours of receiving her covid vaccine she was weak, developed increased shortness of breath and went to the emergency room were she was diagnosed with STEMI and within 2 days expired.
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Shortness of breath Death
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SHORTNESS OF BREATH Bradycardia Hypothermia Cardiomyopathy Elevated troponin Acute renal failure (ARF) Death
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If you click on to the ID of each you get more data. Here is an example:

Event Information
Patient Age 56.00 Sex Female
State / Territory Georgia Date Report Completed 2021-03-12
Date Vaccinated 2021-03-10 Date Report Received 2021-03-12
Date of Onset 2021-03-11 Date Died 2021-03-12
Days to onset 1
Vaccine Administered By Pharmacy * Vaccine Purchased By Not Applicable *
Mfr/Imm Project Number NONE Report Form Version 2
Recovered No Serious Yes

Symptom
CHEST PAIN
DEATH
HEADACHE
NAUSEA
PAIN

According to Medical Center’s report, patient was brought to ED deceased upon arrival via EMS on 03/12/2021 at 8:57am. Patient had been seen on 3/11/2021 at same ED complaining of a heavy type of chest pain in the mid chest, also noting body aches, headache, and nausea.
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Some posters have attributed the very large number of deaths (many multiples of what has ever been seen in vaccines before) to age. This vaccine was specifically designed for the elderly because they were the only ones who were very vulnerable to covid. 17% of deaths were 18-64. 79% were 65 and over.

Important when you are evaluating the covid vaccines is that in addition to the 2,794 deaths after vax, VAERS has also received 205,000 “adverse event reports.”

In that study that I posted part of the research paper where they warned about potential for PAH (Pulmonary arterial hypertension) research demonstrates that the “spike” protein the vaccines produce itself may result in the pathogenesis of certain diseases.

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