The vaers system was very easy to report. It is a text message based system. Just signed up on phone and sent in the report. Cancelled it after a month.
It sounds like you’re referring to V-Safe. That’s a separate system the CDC created. Those vaccinated get a document inviting them to register for V-Safe. Only 6-7% of those vaccinated ever sign up for it.
THe CDC should have made a phone app for VAERS, but then people would report adverse events in a centralized, public location, and the CDC doesn’t want that.
So they created V-Safe, a text system for the cell phone, which will be kept private. Staff may, if they decide to, call people reporting issues. Staff may, if they decide to, upload V-safe reports to VAERS.
I believe V-Safe was created for the purpose of making sure ‘too many’ reports didn’t go directly into VAERS. WEll, still, VAERS gives itself 4-6 weeks to vett every report it receives, so that’s not ‘direct’.
But instead of centralizing data in VAERS, the government has created 11 systems that CAN feed VAERS data. It seems like V-safe was to starve VAERS.