“VAERS is a passive reporting system,”
PASSIVE, not mandatory. That is a key detail when attempting to use their stats.
It’s mandatory for healthcare providers to report.
The big take-away is that what gets reported into VAERS is simply a list of events that occurred in some period of time following a vaccination. There is no causal link established by anything in VAERS; simply a list of stuff that happened later.
Any connection made without an actual investigation is guilty of the logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc. In other words, it’s a false claim.
As of today, there have been zero deaths causally linked to any COVID-19 vaccine in the US or the UK.