>> Do we have any data on the number of people reporting symptoms who have been vaccinated?
Good question, and this is one of the issues I have with the evangelization of the vaccines — there are virtually no publicly/officially reported negatives!
The CDC has an area where one can report issues related to the vaccines, but I don’t recall its location.
In my opinion, no one under 25 should have the vaccine. And the others of reproductive age should cautiously consider the necessity of taking the mRNA vaccines.
There are reported negatives. About 1 in 90,000 can have a severe allergic reaction with the Pfizer vaccine and the same can happen for about 1 in 400,000 with Moderna. Those reactions (anaphylaxis) are serious, but typically blocked immediately with a shot of epinephrine. That’s why you have to wait 15 minutes after getting one.
The Johnson&Johnson vaccine has a potential blood clot risk. It’s also quite rate (about 1 in 467,000 so far), but potentially very serious as well. CDC has guidance to monitor for specific signs of issues related to that.
CDC has the v-Safe system (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html). Additionally, there’s the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) operated by HHS (https://vaers.hhs.gov/). v-Safe is intended to be used by individuals who self-report any side effects they think might be related to any recent vaccination. VAERS accepts reports from anyone, but specifically healthcare providers are required by law to report any adverse events (any bad things) occurring within a specific time after a vaccination (typically within a few weeks, but sometimes up to a year after). With VAERS, if you get a flu shot and then fall on some ice three days later and break your hip, the event gets logged. Where VAERS is useful is taking all that noise and finding patterns in it that are worth investigating. Through that, it’s possible to identify very rare circumstances in which a particular side effect happens. Weird edge cases where nobody would otherwise link the two events.
Hope this helps!
Everyone should cautiously consider everything, but there is now a surge in younger people in the U.S., so be careful of unwittingly contributing to the disease and death of your fellow Americans with your opinion.