Quote~Any attempt to use VAERS as a catalog of problems caused by a vaccine is dishonest. It’s fake news. VAERS is merely a reporting system for anything bad that happens at any point later than vaccine dose administration. If you fall down the stairs and die, that’s entered into VAERS. If you slip on some ice and break your hip, that gets entered into VAERS. Everything goes into VAERS. The purpose of VAERS is to provide researchers with enough data points to single out rare problems with a vaccine from random events that happen normally.
If you take a population of 30 million people - particularly if that population skews elderly - some of them are going to fall, some of them are going to have heart attacks, and some of them are going to die. With or without a vaccine. Claiming everything in VAERS is because of a vaccine is fake news. It’s a lie.
Yup, I don’t disagree. Its an open invitation for data manipulation. I certainly agree.
Now, using your own words quoted above, lets play a game shall we? For every mention you cite vaccine, simply replace vaccine with covid virus. For every mention of VAERS simply replace that with cdc.
I’m not sure why it took 4 separate posts to get here, but you’re comparing apples and oranges.
I’m talking about VAERS, which is the Federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The system is specifically designed to accept reports of any adverse event which occurs at any time after a vaccine is given. It explicitly states that the data in VAERS is NOT causally linked. That’s all that I’ve said about it. There have been zero deaths causally linked to COVID-19 vaccines. There have been a small number (about 1 per 400,000 for Moderna and 1 per 100,000 for Pfizer) of severe allergic reactions from people early on before the warning was given to be especially cautious if your medical history includes a problem with severe reactions. However, all of the reactions observed were immediately treated and everyone recovered. Typically such reactions are treated with epinephrine.
If we agree on that, then great.