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

Children's Defense Fund via NOQ Report ^ | 04/05/2021

[SeekAndFind]

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.

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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.

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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.

© 2021 Children’s Health Defense, Inc. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health Defense, Inc.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

"So you also don’t believe the “Not Serious” number of 18,686 means anything, right?"

It may mean something. It may mean nothing. The proper use for that data is to model it against known baselines and investigation deviations from normal, based on the studied cohorts. Neither you nor I know whether the events listed are happening at a normal background frequency unless we're actually studying the dataset.

In other words, if between 900 and 1100 people fall and break their hips in a normal January - March timeframe and 975 people fell and broke their hips January - March, then do those falls mean anything? Do they mean the vaccine is causing people to fall down? Should that number be zero suddenly because of the vaccine?

The obvious answer in that example is that the 975 falls likely mean nothing because they're well within the normal range. But some here will trot those numbers out and rant about how 975 people have fallen and people who are pro-vaccine don't even care about the evil vaccine making everyone fall over.

[bagster]

I know of a man who got the vax.

A week later, he was shot and killed in a home invasion.

The body was transported to the hospital pending coroner. The event was reported by medical staff to VAERS as a potential adverse effect of taking the vax.

The VAERS ID for home invasion/gunshot homicide is 188188188.

Look it up.

Just kidding. But you get my pernt, right?

p.s. You realize that, if your wet dream comes true and every single American gets the fake Chinese vax, then everything from a hangnail to a bad hair day to terrorist attack will have to be reported as a potential adverse effect.

Oh, and slipping on the ice.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

"My next door neighbor got the vax. The next day a piano fell on his head. It was reported to VAERS as a potential 'adverse effect' from taking the vax. Just kidding. "

I know you're kidding, but that seriously would be recorded in VAERS. 100%. It's a death, which is an adverse event, VAERS ID 10011906. By law, this would be recorded in VAERS. That's literally how this all works.

From the VAERS website itself:

"Serious adverse events regardless of causality"

Doesn't matter if a piano fell on your friend; it's still getting recorded in VAERS by law.

[frogjerk]

In my situation, I had Covid and easily beat it, it is not worth the risk for me to get vaccinated with one that is for emergency use and one where there are no long studies of it.

[bagster]

But some here will trot those numbers out and rant about how 975 people have fallen and people who are pro-vaccine don't even care about the evil vaccine making everyone fall over.

No they won't.

Cause common sense 'anti-covid vaxxers' know the difference between slipping on the ice and having a stroke or a heart attack or having your entire body light up like you caught on fire and they put you out with a gallon of gas, or a miscarriage.

(seen the pics)

[2aProtectsTheRest]

If the fall requires medical intervention (such as falling and breaking a hip) then they 100% are. It’s literally required by law for healthcare providers to report all adverse EVENTS (not just reactions, every single event) that happens after a vaccination. Doesn’t matter if a piano falls on your head; it goes into VAERS.

See also: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3948022/posts?page=23#23

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Too late, they’re already running around with the VAERS numbers as though they actually indicate real vaccine injuries rather than simply adverse events that occurred some time after a vaccination.

[SeekAndFind]

Here’s an interesting question — how long will your natural antibodies confer defense against Covid vs. the antibodies provided by the vaccine?

A second question — Will your antibodies be effective against the variants, vs the vaccines?

[surroundedbyblue]

Liar

[bagster]

Well, anyway. I've seen it stated that VAERS covid adverse events are topping the list of all vaccines in only a matter of months, beating out vaccines that have been in use for decades.

How do you account for that, if ALL (even obviously unrelated events) are reported.

My theory is this. The vax is unsafe and an increase in 'adverse events' shows that, whether they are slipping on the ice or pianos on the head.

Cipher out the percentage in all other vax's obviously not related reportage and you get closer to the real number, deaths included.

I further hypothesise that 'non related' events are a tiny fraction of the true number.

Which leaves us with an unsafe vaxx that you're trying to whitewash for some unknown reason.

[RC one]

It’s BS. I know the person who submits the data to VAERS for a major hospital. We’ve talked about this many times. None of the reactions are related to the vaccine itself but they still have to be reported because of the timing. She has submitted 10 reports to VAERS in the past month and only one of them was actually a vaccine related problem and it was so minor it was very minor. But I know you won’t believe this.

[surroundedbyblue]

Can you show me this “law” mandating healthcare reports report adverse vaccine events? I’m not aware of such a law and I’ve been a healthcare worker since 1997.

I am aware that the law requires me to report any suspicion of child abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, and situations of neglect), but this VAERS requirement is news to me

[SeekAndFind]

I am at this point, NEUTRAL regarding the cause and effect of the vaccines on those who have experienced after-vaccine adverse reactions.

But I think you are being unfair to 2aProtectsTheRest by calling him a liar in your response to his post # 5 above. After all, he did provide the CDC link in his post.

Here is what the CDC states ( copy and paste) :

“When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.”

You might as well call the folks at CDC liars.

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I’m friends with the person who investigates and reports adverse drug reactions to VAERS for a major hospital. She has reported 10 post Covid ADRs and only one of them was related to Covid and it was very minor. I have personally vaccinated hundreds of people. When they come back for dose two, we always ask them how they did after dose 1. Only one or two people that I have talked to described any kind of significant reaction.

[Fury]

As noted yesterday, these threads have a significant signal to noise ratio.

There’s enough information out there for each person to make a data informed decision.

But at the end of the day, it is each person’s decision. And FReepers need to accept that - and move on.

Some of the worst offending issues are 1) mask wearing and 2) vaccines. Good grief, people. Don’t get so wrapped around the axle that others don’t see COVID-19 issues the same as you or make the same decision as you. Provide references for your positions and argue as politely as possible. That’s all you can do.

[bagster]

None of the reactions are related to the vaccine itself but they still have to be reported because of the timing. She has submitted 10 reports to VAERS in the past month and only one of them was actually a vaccine related problem and it was so minor it was very minor.

Cool how you contradict your own self within two sentences.

Tell us more, doctor. I promise Ill believe you.

[bagster]

You might as well call the folks at CDC liars.

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[bagster]

Only one or two people that I have talked to described any kind of significant reaction.

But didn't you just say.....?

Ah, what's the use.

[ConservativeMind]

In other words, if between 900 and 1100 people fall and break their hips in a normal January - March timeframe and 975 people fell and broke their hips January - March, then do those falls mean anything? Do they mean the vaccine is causing people to fall down? Should that number be zero suddenly because of the vaccine?

The issue with your example is that actual medical people are filling out under threat of arrest these individual findings as being truly anomalous for the norm in their professional experience.

[RC one]

The one reaction that could be attributed to the vaccine was so minor that, for all intents and purposes, it wasn’t a reaction. I’m not going to say what it was because it’s none of your business but it was probably more closely related to anxiety.