55 People Have Died in US After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines: Reporting System

The Epoch Times ^ | January 17, 2021 | Zack Steiber

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Fifty-five people in the United States have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports submitted to a federal system.

Deaths have occurred among people receiving both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, according to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federal database. The system is passive, meaning reports aren’t automatically collected and must be filed. VAERS reports can be filed by anyone, including health care providers, patients, or family members.

VAERS reports “often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors,” according to the reporting system’s website. Still, reports on VAERS represent “only a small fraction of actual adverse events,” the site states, although underreporting is believed to be less common for serious events.

In some cases, patients died within days of being vaccinated.

One man, a 66-year-old senior home resident in Colorado, was sleepy and stayed in bed a day after getting Moderna’s vaccine. Early the next morning, he “was observed in bed lying still, pale, eyes half open and foam coming from mouth and unresponsive,” the VAERS report states. “He was not breathing and with no pulse.”

In another case, a 93-year-old South Dakota man was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Jan. 4 around 11 a.m. About two hours later, he said he was tired and couldn’t continue with the physical therapy he was doing. He was taken back to his room, where he said his legs felt heavy. Soon after, he stopped breathing. A nurse declared a do-not-resuscitate order.

While Moderna and Pfizer didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment, Abigail Capobianco, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told The Epoch Times via email, “Any reports of death following the administration of vaccines are promptly and rigorously investigated jointly by FDA” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Officials at the agencies work with health care providers to obtain medical histories and clinical follow-up information and conduct a clinical case review, she said, adding, “It is important to note that it is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused an adverse event.”

Health officials on the VAERS website caution that a report to the system doesn’t prove a vaccine caused the adverse event; no proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for the system to accept the report.

In addition to the deaths, people have reported 96 life-threatening events following COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as 24 permanent disabilities, 225 hospitalizations, and 1,388 emergency room visits.

COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Neither the CDC nor the FDA has a central database of reported adverse events. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said on Jan. 6 that severe allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines were happening at a rate of 11.1 per million vaccinations, compared to the rate of 1.3 per 1 million flu shots.

As of Jan. 15, 10.5 million Americans have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Federal health officials have said that adverse events are being investigated but that the vaccines are still safe.

“These are safe and effective vaccines. We have good data to show that,” Messonnier said.

One death following a vaccination attracted attention earlier this week. Gregory Michael, a 56-year-old medical worker at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, was injected on Dec. 18, 2020. Sixteen days later, he died.

Michael’s wife Heidi Neckelmann said on Facebook that her husband was “very healthy” before being vaccinated. She said he was admitted to an intensive care unit with a diagnosis of acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood disorder, caused by a reaction to the vaccine. He eventually died.

“He was a pro-vaccine advocate, that is why he got it himself,” Neckelmann wrote. “I believe that people should be aware that side effects can happen, that it is not good for everyone, and in this case destroyed a beautiful life, a perfect family, and has affected so many people in the community. Do not let his death be in vain, please save more lives by making this information news.”

Pfizer told news outlets in a statement that no evidence currently shows a link between that death and its vaccine.

“Pfizer and BioNTech are aware of the death of a health care professional 16 days after receiving a first dose of BNT162b2,” Pfizer said in a statement. “It is a highly unusual clinical case of severe thrombocytopenia, a condition that decreases the body’s ability to clot blood and stop internal bleeding.”

“We are actively investigating this case, but we don’t believe at this time that there is any direct connection to the vaccine,” the company added. “There have been no related safety signals identified in our clinical trials, the post-marketing experience thus far, or with the mRNA vaccine platform. To date, millions of people have been vaccinated and we are closely monitoring all adverse events in individuals receiving our vaccine. It is important to note that serious adverse events, including deaths that are unrelated to the vaccine, are unfortunately likely to occur at a similar rate as they would in the general population.”

A Pfizer spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email earlier this month that the company “closely monitor[s] all reports following vaccination.” Moderna hasn’t responded to requests for comment on its involvement in monitoring serious adverse events in people who get its vaccine.

The updated VAERS data came after Norway changed its COVID-19 vaccination guide to direct officials not to give “very frail” people one of the vaccines, citing 13 deaths among people who were vaccinated.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“’Any reports of death following the administration of vaccines are promptly and rigorously investigated jointly by FDA’ and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”

Well, that’s comforting...NOT!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

How many vacations have been given?

[null and void]

It might be more comforting if they didn't bury the results of those prompt and rigorous investigations with the dead...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

[databoss]

55 permanent ‘vacations’ it appears

[Secret Agent Man]

i’ll take a vacation

i won’t take a vaccination

[Bob434]

[[How many vacations have been given?]]

56

[algore]

we are basing this reporting on a database that is admittedly not accurate, but have news space to fill.

On the other hand I am still expecting far worse reactions after the 2nd dose... time will soon tell

[jeffc]

For some reason I’m starting to wonder if the vaccine deaths are being under-reported and being blamed on “other” things, exactly the opposite of how they inflated the china virus “cases” and deaths. Yeah, I’m that cynical...

[Brilliant]

Is that all? Since the priority is 85 years or older I would have though many more than that.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Damn. I need to start wearing my glasses.

[OnAMission]

Those numbers have to be off. I know of two in my local town’s nursing home. Got the shot on the same day and 10 days later both dead from “respiratory issues”.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

One sources says that 11.1 million shots have been administered. 55 deaths may not be statistically significant. I'll keep an open mind. From a previous post of mine:

I said when the vaccine was first announced that some people taking it would suffer adverse events that may or may not be related to the vaccine, but that lurid stories would appear “linking” those events to the vaccine. The greatest medical advance in the 20th Century was the controlled clinical trial. The vaccines have undergone testing and trials. It is not impossible that some people may actually suffer adverse effects from the vaccine, but like the Salk vaccine or smallpox, I’ll take my chances with the vaccine, since the risk of Covid is more plausible than the remote chance of an adverse reaction to the vaccine.

I doubt that I will change anyone’s mind by posting this.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

55 People Have Died in US After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines

More people have died as a result of contracting the Wuhan virus - most of them elderly. The Chinese have not given us a lot of good options with their virus - the vaccines developed under Trump's Operation Warp Speed are the best of those options. I just took my mom to get her first Wuhan virus vaccination this morning, as she is over 75. She'll get the second next month.

[CedarDave]

She’s doing good? No reaction?

[House Atreides]

“One sources says that 11.1 million shots have been administered. 55 deaths may not be statistically significant. I’ll keep an open mind. From a previous post of mine:...”
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I wonder how many deaths have occurred among an equivalent group of 11.1 million people who did not get the shot but have still died. You are precisely right.

[Howe_D_Dewty]

I had my first one yesterday. Absolutely one of the easiest shots I have ever had. Arm slightly sore today but can still carry a 50 pound bag of seed. The clinic warned me that there would be no beneficial effect for around 2 weeks and to certainly get the second dose. I am not the least worried...however my wife took out a million dollar insurance policy on me today....( just kidding..just kidding )

[Howe_D_Dewty]

seed should read FEED...sorry..

[Presbyterian Reporter]

VAERS reports can be filed by anyone, including health care providers, patients, or family members.

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Good that patients can file a report.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

55 New Democrate voters!