Towards the lower end of severity, there is probably major UNDERreporting. Most people who experience things like bad headaches, nausea, flu-like symptoms, and dizziness probably do not report these to VAERS, even if they know about VAERS.
Who overreports the cause of death or injuries? Yea, that would be no one
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Myth busted: VAERS is NOT "overreported", Steve_Seattle wrote: Towards the lower end of severity, there is probably major UNDERreporting. Most people who experience things like bad headaches, nausea, flu-like symptoms, and dizziness probably do not report these to VAERS, even if they know about VAERS.
Yes. Many posts on places like IMGUR.com treated the adverse events as a badge of honor, proving you sacrifice for others, and rather than report it, they bragged about it. How sick they felt, their fevers, the misery and body aches, blinding headaches and extensive diarrhea - all of it posted to the Internet but not to VAERS.