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

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

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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.

[dynoman]

Read post 57.

[SgtHooper]

“A brick falling on someone’s head should not be recorded in VAERS.”

Not necessarily. If the person’s mental state, body functions, etc., were so impacted by the vaccination, to the extent that they could not appreciate the danger or risk of a falling brick in a construction zone, it should be reported. A nexus between the vaccination and the cause of the injury could be made.

[bagster]

I’m going to pray for you Bagster.

How sweet.

Declined. Send money instead.

You got plenty. Send me a cut of the profits from this.

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The only reason not to believe you may be a paid 'micro influencer' is that you're not persuasive. But not everybody can be a success story like that 2a guy.

Cash only, please and thankQ.

[bagster]

Bags, you should know that it’s not a proper vaccine. It’s experimental mRNA therapy.

It is known.

[dynoman]

“The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.”

What people say about that quote is not proof that a vaccine DID NOT cause the adverse event either. The way some here talk we should blow off all the reported adverse event and reaction reports. The shear volume of reports in such a short time with the covid vaccines should be concerning. The VAERS report for the all the diphtheria vaccines grouped together shows 482 deaths from DECADES of them being used, many millions more than covid vaccines. A week ago covid vaccines hit 3.38 times that number - in five months.

As Elon Musk would say, “something bogus is going on.”

[dynoman]

LOL!!

[bagster]

He’s a genius compared to the “shock horror the sky is falling” tin foil hat brigade.

Then that puts him miles above the government drones hyping this fake vax like its their job.

But really, 'old people die' even I figured out when I was twelve.

[Jane Long]

You busted the paid, troll/vax influencers, bags!!

Good work!

[ThunderSleeps]

Agreed. I don't think trials on approximately 43,000 people (one vaccine's trial pool) for up to 1 year represents "tested" and safe. That is only 0.013% of the population of the US, no-where near the typical 10 to 15 year vaccine development cycle, and 2 of the 3 are based on brand new, never before put into widespread use mRNA technology.

These "vaccines" in no-way are tested nor proven safe. This is why the FDA classifies them as experimental. Do you think the drug companies would be producing and distributing millions of doses if they weren't protected from liability by the "experimental" moniker? That alone should tell you everything you need to know about these vaccines.

Yes, they are apparently nominally effective, though there is conflicting information as to whether vaccinated people can still carry/transmit the virus. Yes, they may be effective for months or years - unknown at this time if or how often boosters will be required. Yes, they may be effective, or not, against variants of the virus - conflicting reports on this too. Gosh it's almost like we don't know much about these... They may be safe, or there may be long-term side effects that don't show up for months or years. We don't know because no-one has had them for years, only the tiniest fraction of people have had it for up to 1 year.

To me the idea of putting 100 million or more people into a brand new medication trial is insane and reckless to the point of negligence. Particularly in light of the apparent survival rates for most demographics that might catch the virus. I hope everything turns out ok, or at least reasonably ok - the vaccines work and don't cause too much pain and suffering. But it is also likely, given our history with trying new things, that there will be some horrible consequences too this rash action. I hope they are not too widespread.

[BDParrish]

Not any discernible pattern at all.
No place to even start.
I can see the site rash happening which is most of these reactions but that is not killing people.

[Jane Long]

Thanks, doc...for your valued input and important warnings, against these experimental mNRA agents.

Much appreciated, as always.

[bagster]

Not necessarily. If the person’s mental state, body functions, etc., were so impacted by the vaccination, to the extent that they could not appreciate the danger or risk of a falling brick in a construction zone, it should be reported. A nexus between the vaccination and the cause of the injury could be made.

Oh, FFS.

Bro.

[bagster]

You busted the paid, troll/vax influencers, bags!!

I can't take credit. Somebody slipped me a crib note. I just presented it in my own superlative Bagster style.

[Jane Long]

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.

O, rly?

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Just what, exactly, IS your profession?

You claim to have doled out hundreds of 'vaccine' shots, even saying you're a vaccine machine....at 'your' hospital.

And, you seem to think 'your' hospital had the very first China Flu patient.

Now, you're stating as fact what a possible fake-vaccine, REAL reaction might possibly be 'attributed' to.

So, go on....tell us, Mr/Ms Expert.....what EXACTLY is your medical background and area of medical expertise/specialty?

[bert]

blah blah blah fake vaccine yada yada yada

[bagster]

blah blah blah fake vaccine yada yada yada

No kidding.

Errbody knows its,

blah blah blah fake Chinese vaccine blah blah blah.

[Cathi]

“The way I understand the “autopsy” thing is that there ought to be a way to show how the vaccine kills.”

Actually not...there are very few autopsies done in these cases and the following is probably why.

“Dr. Erik Christensen, Utah’s chief Medical Examiner, said proving vaccine injury as a cause of death almost never happens. “Did the vaccine cause this? I think that would be very hard to demonstrate in autopsy,” he said.”

“Erik can think of only one instance where you would see a vaccine as the cause of death on an official autopsy report and that would be in an immediate case of Anaphylaxis. One where a person received the vaccine and died almost instantaneously. “Short of that” he said, “it would be difficult for us to definitively say this is the vaccine.” A more likely result, would be a lack of answers or an “incomplete autopsy.”

“The autopsy, he said, can provide answers to a family when no disease or red flags are found. As Erik explained, “that we don’t see a competing cause of death.” That lack of answers may help them understand if the vaccine was a possible cause.”

“He says that it would be very hard to determine in an autopsy that a vaccine contributed to the death.”

[bagster]

So, go on....tell us, Mr/Ms Expert.....what EXACTLY is your medical background and area of medical expertise/specialty?

I got him pictured as a medical assistant (MA), an LVN, or a 300 pound Gaylord Fokker male nurse. Or maybe even a janitor sweeping up the exam rooms.

But he's got friends that tell him stuff.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hi Pfizer sales rep!

How’s the April sales quota looking so far?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Third question…

3. do you want a mRNA treatment that makes your cells produce things that look like invaders to your immune system?

Would you like an autoimmune disease with your “vaccine?”