10. From 2012 through 2016, vaccine providers submitted 32% of U.S. VAERS reports; vaccine manufacturers submitted 41%; patients . Case "B" A man who was vaccinated against varicella in 1995 developed encephalomyloneuritis and required hospitalization for months. Underreporting and Post-Vaccine Deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Explained | by Shin Jie Yong | Microbial Instincts | Medium Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies,. Thats not how VAERS works, however. VAERS accepts all reports of suspected adverse events, in all age groups. (2000) 284:1271-1279. Kennedy told Kessler that VAERS has been an abject failure, with fewer than 1% of adverse events ever reported. MeSH Psikhiatr. The startling statistics are being shared far and wide by anti-vaccination activists and concerned readers alike. That study is titled Electronic Support for Public HealthVaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS), and it is the final report of a grant given to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Unsurprisingly, RFK Jr. fails to mention that the BMJ article to which he refers is a BMJ Rapid Response, which is basically a comment section that is not peer-reviewed that cranks love to use to post their ramblings and then cite them as though they were legitimate articles in The BMJ. Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:483, 2010) Even for infants 3-6 "'Underreporting' is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS," HHS says on its website. (1995) 13(4):340-342. (1993) 35(4):345-347. 2020 Aug 18;38(37):5923-5926. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.07.007. LEE SY, KOMP DM, ANDIMAN W: Thrombocytopenic Purpura following varicella-zoster vaccination. FOIA Data are updated on a monthly basis. * Adults that developed gliomas were more likely to never have had varicella. hb```i Ab,X,YsbW``XddTy d`4[Y,A ! It is a statement of fact that there are over 3,000 reports of deaths in VAERS among people who received a Covid vaccine. VAERS reports associated with Varicella, DTaP, Hep B, Hib, and MMR vaccines through December, 2003. During the 18-year period from 1990 through 2007 just 88 cases of Kawasaki Disease in children under 5 were reported to VAERS. A cursory search of social media shows those who are spreading the VAERS data have paid little heed to the agencys disclaimers. Harvard Business Review noted that the previous vaccine development record was . (1970) 70(10):1465-1471. The website address, www.vaers.hhs.gov, is printed on the vaccine information statements (VISs), short documents listing the benefits and risks of vaccines that are required by law to be distributed with every vaccine dose administered in the US.1, But the website link leads anybody using the web browsers Chrome, Firefox, and some versions of Internet Explorer to a warning page. Disease in children under 5 were reported to VAERS. They don't offer great . If you look at the CHD scientific advisory board, youll soon see that its a whos-who of antivaccine cranks, including Richard Deth (what a blast from the past!) 4. Similarly, as expected, antivaxxers point to anecdotes of bad things happening to people after receiving the vaccine that are almost certainly coincidences and not related to the vaccine and are weaponizing them to spread fear. Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine. 3. Epub 2020 Jun 27. Im referring, of course, to antivaxxers resurrecting old antivaccine tropes, dusting them off, and updating them for the age of COVID. Surveillance for safety after immunization: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)--United States, 1991-2001. health In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . Thus, if you vaccinated 40,000 80+ year olds, you would expect about 80 deaths out of that group within one week *just by coincidence*. She remains disabled and out of work and the event has been reported to VAERS. It is the Vaccine Adverse Event. You might wonder: Why would anyone set up a system like VAERS, which is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Signals and trends of Guillain-Barr syndrome after the introduction of live-attenuated vaccines for influenza in the US and South Korean adverse event reporting systems. "Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Exogenous exposures to wild type varicella have previously contributed a significant immunologic boosting effect that helps suppress the reactivation of herpes-zoster. Objectives: To determine the sensitivity of VAERS in capturing AE reports of anaphylaxis and Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS) following vaccination and whether this is consistent with previous estimates for other severe AEs. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. According to the VAERS data, of the 329 reported deaths, 285 were from the U.S., and 44 were from other countries. Luo C, Jiang Y, Du J, Tong J, Huang J, Lo Re V 3rd, Ellenberg SS, Poland GA, Tao C, Chen Y. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. J Clin Pharm Ther. 14. But definitely its being underreported.. VAERS sensitivity for capturing anaphylaxis after seven different vaccines ranged from 13 to 76%; sensitivity for capturing GBS after three different vaccines ranged from 12 to 64%. Nonetheless, previous reports demonstrate substantial case capture for clinically severe adverse events (AEs), including 47% of intussusception cases after rotavirus vaccine, and 68% of vaccine associated paralytic polio after oral polio vaccine. and transmitted securely. VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) is the voluntary system used in the U.S. to signal vaccine side effects. In fact, lack of engagement by the CDC rendered the entire project pretty much null. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare %PDF-1.6 % They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors. Wrensch et al. VAERS accepts reports from anyone, including patients, family members, healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers. She underwent a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with the rare and more serious collagenous colitis. It is worth pointing out that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., has no affiliation with Harvard University. hbbd``b`$Oo@UHYWY 0 I between Harvard and Constella. about 88 million U.S. children passed through the 0-5 age group; The only old antivaccine lie or distortion that I havent seen used against COVID-19 vaccines yet is the claim that they cause autism or sudden infant death syndrome. The sorts of tactics antivaxxers are using now have surprised and befuddled a lot of pro-science advocates, mainly because so many of them have not been paying attention to the antivaccine movement, in particular its longstanding tactics and its basis in conspiracy theories. Indeed, Facebook posts seen by the HPR with hundreds of engagements include the same verbatim instructions, copy and pasted, for users to disregard disclaimers. to RAVKINA LI, MATSEVICH GR: Morphological changes in the central nervous system in post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis developing after chickenpox vaccination in children. There is no citation for that sentence. The coding of VAERS reports requires careful interpretation. After the investigations that lead to the licensing of a vaccine, the mainstay of post-marketing surveillance is the mandated reporting of adverse events following vaccines, a reporting system jointly overseen by CDC and FDA was created, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). adverse It might be true that such a small percentage of adverse events is reported for self-limited minor events, such as sore arms, fever, nausea, and the like. If you are a potential patient and found this page through a Google search, please check out Dr. Gorski's biographical information, disclaimers regarding his writings, and notice to patients here. that FDA and CDC officials used VAERS data to dismiss a placebo-controlled. POSER CM: Neurological Complications of Vaccinations. (2003) 135(3):415-417. Adverse event; Passive surveillance; Vaccine; Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS); Vaccine safety. The easily-abused nature of VAERS data is one huge reason why those of us whove been following the antivaccine movement a long time like to refer to the bad scientific studies published by antivaccine physicians and scientists that use VAERS as their data source as dumpster diving. Epub 2022 Sep 11. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 requires health professionals and vaccine manufacturers to report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services specific adverse events that occur after the administration of routinely recommended vaccines. (1999) 127(6):733-734. Case "C" An adult female, age 47, became disabled following varicella vaccination. He remains permanently disabled. With reported deaths linked to the COVID-19 vaccine on this database at such high levels, the CDC must confront the likely prospect that anti-vaccine activists are purposely submitting false reports to inflate mortality numbers and heighten community fears over the coronavirus vaccine. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). !F+% H30Dif>$cBT1n0 "|G Its basically against public health and any collective action to protect public health. Unsurprisingly, RFK Jr. and CHD are full ofwell, a brown stinky substance. The CDC blocked both the data collection by the Harvard Pilgrim group, and also any implementation that could have followed from their findings. HHS states on the VAERS website that one of the system's main limitations is underreporting, noting that "VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events." Further, VAERS . Basically, VAERS is a passive reporting system, in which anyone can report suspected adverse events after any vaccination to be recorded in the database. Usefulness of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for Machine-Learning Based Vaccine Research: A Case Study for COVID-19 Vaccines. Information needs to be . The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Results: Have you heard the claim that only 1% of serious vaccine reactions are reported to VAERS? The U.S. The rash slowly subsided but left scars. Mercolas reference #7 is superfluous, because it also references #6. 0.6, 239. Based on the law of large numbers, in which very small percentages translate into a large number of actual cases or people, we would expect a lot more deaths within a couple of weeks after vaccination by random chance alone. Prior research has shown that only a fraction of adverse events are. 6. Would you like email updates of new search results? trial that found a 5-fold KD risk associated with RotaTeq--RR=4.9; 95% CI He received a third course of Acyclovir and the rash resolved after a month. 11. VAERS is a government database managed by the Centers for Disease. The point of the grant given was to develop a more accurate system for capturing vaccine injuries, one that mined electronic medical records in real time, generating flags and reports for physician approval of automated submission to VAERS. Given that anyone can report any suspected adverse event, VAERS is intended to be an early warning system. Vaccine-Associated Uveitis after COVID-19 Vaccination: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Database Analysis. Mercola, just a few paragraphs below that, emphasizes the point: Studies have indicated it could be as low as 1%.6,7. So beim Kupfer, dessen Abbau [] A Harvard Vaccine Injury Study conducted from 2007 to 2010, reveals on page 6 a fewer than 1 % report rate in VAERS. effects) are filed in VAERS. True, someone did contact him to question it. The time period for the VAERS report runs from December 14, 2020 (the first day COVID-19 vaccines were generally available) to January 22, 2021. So far, only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been granted Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S. by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There is another story being missed regarding that Harvard Pilgrim study, though. NASERI A, GOOD WV, CUNNINGHAM ET JR: Herpes zoster virus sclerokeratitis and anterior uveitis in a child following varicella vaccination. Risk increases with each dose of vaccine as well. No, seriously, look at the stupidity on display here: For over three weeks, the website of the US government Vaccination Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) has been inaccessible to most users. * Authors report that a healthy 5-year-old girl developed HZ in the dermatome supplied by the ophthalmic branch of the fifth cranial nerve 40 months after varicella vaccination. Epub 2020 Jul 21. Case E Of course, in this article, RFK Jr. claims that its not just 10% of adverse reactions that are reported to VAERS but rather that only 1% of adverse reactions after vaccination are ever reported to VAERS: The clinical trials suggested that almost all the benefits of COVID vaccination and the vast majority of injuries were associated with the second dose. Practically no one is going to report an adverse reaction like a sore arm or transient fever to VAERS, but you know damned well theyll report more serious ones, such as a seizure. The lot number associated with each vaccine is recorded in the VAERS data base. Increased scrutiny on the VAERS dataset comes as the Director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, fought back tears warning of an impending doom. The United States rolling 7-day average for new infections has increased 15% over the span of just two weeks and hospitalizations caused by the virus have jumped by 5% in that same period. Her physician was of the opinion that a virus probably triggered her autoimmune response. The global reach of the CDC VAERS misinformation should not be underestimated, with print copies of the data having been placed into letterboxes as far away as Brisbane, Australia. More generally: The chance of dying in an average week for those over 80 is about 0.2% or 1 in 500. First, you must understand that, as I alluded to above, VAERS isnt intended to give an accurate estimate of the frequency of various adverse events after vaccination. EMRs available from all ambulatory care encounters in a large multi-specialty practice were used. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and by the Food and Drug Administration. She received a first dose of the vaccine in March and the second in May 2001. Clearly that Harvard study is where the gold is. My topic here is not VAERS generally, but a number that recurs often in discussions about the vaccine injury reports VAERS contains. There were nearly 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents in the U.S. between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, according to data from the Stop AAPI Hate coalition released this week. As such, I think it is somewhat sloppy science to reference the Harvard study as support of VAERS underreporting. Prediction of post-vaccination Guillain-Barr syndrome using data from a passive surveillance system. Data is also available through the CDC wonder interface by clicking on the CDC wonder link at the top of the page. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. months old, when suspicion for vaccine adverse effects should be The primary goals of VAERS is to detect new, unusual, or rare adverse events; monitor increases in known adverse events; Identify potential patient risk factors for particular types of adverse events; identify vaccine lots with increased numbers of types of adverse events; and assess the safety of newly licensed vaccines. Its a specific skill that requires deep knowledge of conspiracy theories and the specific tactic and tropes used by science denialists and conspiracy theorists like antivaxxers, coupled with a deep understanding of the scientific literature on vaccines. Of course, that disclaimer is included, so that RFK Jr. and his merry band of antivax ideologues can claim to have been literally honest while following up their recounting of VAERS numbers with all sorts of statements implying that vaccines were causative for the adverse events listed before. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. The first is: Whats the denominator? Ds mother was initially fearful and refused the varicella vaccine for her daughter. In this case, a retired pediatrician named Allan Cunningham rattled off a whole lot of antivaccine tropes about vaccines and autism and cites antivaccine-sympathetic BMJ editor Peter Doshi. It is indeed a misconfiguration but its relatively minor. 12. The reason he is concerned is that this is in contrast to the last five flu seasons, over the course of which there have been 119 reports of deaths to VAERS among people who received a seasonal flu vaccine. Despite this pledge, some prominent anti-vaccine Facebook pages remain online with hundreds of thousands of followers. To test the correlations found in VAERS requires different systems, systems such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) or others, which are active safety monitoring databases in which investigators actively scan real medical records and insurance claims data to seek increases in frequencies of adverse events after vaccination and try to determine if there is a real association. PMC (I realize that that 22 million figure includes an additional week of vaccinations and does not break down how many people had received one or both doses, but this is a back-of-the-envelope) calculation. by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. The combined efforts of communication scientists, health services researchers, and others can enhance the development and implementation of long-term, sustainable plans for gathering reliable real-time data about facilitators of and barriers to vaccine acceptance, translating those data into practical solutions. . How? We had initially planned to evaluate the system by comparing adverse event findings to those in the Vaccine Safety Datalink project however, due to restructuring at CDC and consequent delays in terms of decision making, it became impossible to move forward with discussions regarding the evaluation of ESP:VAERS performance in a randomized trial, and compare ESP:VAERS performance to existing VAERS and Vaccine Safety Datalink data. SAKAGUCHI M, YAMANAKA T, IKEDA K, SANO Y, FUJITA H, MIURA T, INOUYE S: IgE-mediated systemic reactions to gelatin included in the varicella vaccine. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine. In a yearlong period from August 2021 to July 2022, 821 children ages 0 to 19 died from covid-19 at a rate of 1 per 100,000. 13. MATSUBARA K, NIGAMI H, HARIGAYA H, BABA K: Herpes zoster in a normal child after varicella vaccination. A certain number of 80+ year olds die every day. A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. Indeed, I long ago discussed how lawyers have long gamed VAERS to support their litigation, reporting lots of cases of autism as supposedly an adverse reaction to vaccines. If Laidler hadnt been honest, he could have insisted that the report remain, and it would have. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of the CDC and FDA is the nationwide early warning system that monitors the safety of vaccines once they are licensed or cleared for use by the FDA. J. Ophthalmol. It is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, commonly known as VAERS. Vaccine (1999) 17(4):327-329. Pediatr. A 35-year old female who had never had varicella, was exposed to infected children. And yet, publicly hosted on a CDC web server are claims that COVID-19 vaccines have caused gunshot wounds, with the CDC helpfully listing shareable buttons at the top of the page for your vaccine misinformation platform of choice: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and email for those wanting to mass-email their office colleagues. Re: Singh etal. So where is that information in this study? Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - HHS.gov, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. However, real data transmissions of non-physician approved reports to the CDC was unable to commence, as by the end of this project, the CDC had yet to respond to multiple requests to partner for this activity. A CDC database that was mostly unknown except to a small segment of the population is now regularly in the news. Rather, it was always intended to serve as an early warning system, a canary in the coalmine, so to speak. Known as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, the database includes hundreds of thousands of reports of health events that occurred minutes, hours or days after vaccination.. With the authority of the CDC, whose official seal adorns the webpage, VAERS packs a shock. Nevropatol. (Pediatr Infect Dis J 28:943, 2009) From 1988 to Deaths definitely get ones attention and are far more likely to be reported than any other AE. It's a shame because VAERS plays a vital role in detecting important but rare reactions caused by vaccines. NARUSE H, MIWATA H, OZAKI T, ASANO Y, NAMAZUE J, YAMANISHI K: Varicella infection complicated with meningitis after immunization. Moreover, the CDC and FDA do not restrict what people can report, as long as it happened at some point following a vaccination. Objectives: He had moderate pain and the lesions were tender and sensitive to clothing. So how are antivaxxers weaponizing VAERS? Adverse events following pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent and seasonal influenza vaccinations during the 2009-2010 season in the active component U.S. military and civilians aged 17-44years reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded Harvard Medical School a $1 million grant to track VAERS reporting at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare for three years and develop an automated reporting system that would . Case D If confirmed by a larger trial, the KD ) One observation that Ive made about how antivaxxers have joined the COVID-19 cranks and conspiracy theorists and started casting doubt on COVID-19 vaccines is that everything old is new again. VAERS is a publicly available, searchable database of reports that have not been verified. At the end of the document is not a list of supporting citations, but only a list of publications by the organization on the topic of the automated adverse event reporting. Share on Facebook, opens a new window (1997) 126(10):833-834. Seeking a new model to lower wait times, but also improve patient choice of care, County Council Senior Medical . A quote from the in-question Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. study: "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Then, with respect to antivaccine disinformation, truly everything old will be new again. Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. officials rely on a system that reports fewer than 1% of adverse effects? That claim is based on an old study about drug reactions and was not specific to vaccines. The Harvard study mentioned by Dr. Zelenko is the same as the one found at reference #6 cited by Mercola. Many physicians consider vaccination extremely safe and parents or patients are not provided with information regarding potential adverse outcomes. Bookshelf A VAERS report was filed January 30, 2000. Varicella vaccination is generally considered safe [1] but there are usually no prescreening tests to determine whether an adverse reaction is likely to occur [2]. During the same Consequently, even though antivaxxers like to harp on how passive surveillance systems generally capture only a small fraction of adverse reactions, one thing VAERS does do is capture severe reactions. The point of Harvard Pilgram Health Care, Inc. getting that grant was to develop a much more efficient system for capturing vaccine injuries, a system that would be built into electronic health records systems and so could flag temporal relationships between vaccinations being dispensed and symptoms subsequently reported. Ophthalmology. In December, CHD and Kennedy wrote to former FDA director, Dr. David Kessler, co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and President Bidens version of Operation Warp Speed. The CDC describes VAERS as a passive reporting system. Pre-dating the internet, the VAERS database has virtually no guards against its potential role as a source of fake news and is credulous of even the most fanciful claims of COVID-19 vaccine side-effects. 290 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<2DFFE8CD87B0A54688B7A1A0039905EB>]/Index[284 17]/Info 283 0 R/Length 53/Prev 85940/Root 285 0 R/Size 301/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream In fact, the original article is by Peter Doshi and represents him falling for an antivaccine conspiracy theory that somehow VAERS was being made inaccessible to suppress reports. 1. It was the waiting that drew the attention of the Stockholm County Council. Misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine abounds on the web, but no site established by an anti-vaccine activist could hope to have the reach and recognisability of the CDC website. We know according to a Harvard study that VAERS is only thought to represent 1% of actual injuries." This site needs JavaScript to work properly. Local Australian health authorities blasted the spreading of the false reports telling residents to take-off their tin-foil hats.. Covid-19 was the eighth leading cause of death among children in recent months, according to a study published Monday. So even though 23 people dying shortly after a vaccine sounds scary, its not above what is expected. So, roughly the baseline death rate is roughly 2.4/100,000 per day. period It should therefore be no surprise that antivaxxers are now using VAERS to try to portray COVID-19 vaccines as harmful or even deadly. We developed an open-source, generalizable clinical decision support system called Electronic Support for Public Health-Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP-VAERS) to assist clinicians with AE . VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse reactions to . Neurol. The VAERS system keeps track of any unusual or unexpected adverse events that occur after vaccine administration. hXmk6+B%Yo Izr wnb} >{r= [3%bk2+3J azwyynG0m7oC._s/VuVK_]hBuZ,:E*rpOv1v6[_-n]EPP7g~%~jhq/8Sn?tdg/j]Wdl-7 MGa8[>UgffM,fCM~kWQ?u^\?;5VX)I$@jxF![{L0hQcI 4tIg[,N:wcAx6cLjS?q/]}`.ubb7GKjqvm;+4 F0:i`@1K0V#t|-r$4qKf\~C9vxvp>yQCL\'dJHB^Hh= tBK:rFH|'WdAc-H{2sM:w. The Harvard Pilgrim study is not a reference that substantiates any claims about VAERS underreporting. The first report of an adverse reaction following varicella vaccination was filed with VAERS (ID 74221) on May 26, 1995. The degree of underreporting varies widely. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), was to construct the below flow of data in order to support the first two Aims: Figure 1. I assume the claim from Kirsch is based on a 10 year old report from Harvard-Pilgrim insurance showing that only ~1% of drug related adverse effects are reported. %%EOF (Pediatrics 111:448, 2003. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. On the other hand, more serious and unexpected medical events are probably more likely to be reported than minor ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes. J. Pediatr. cases were reported to VAERS. Nothing coming before or after even suggests what that number is based upon. A man who was vaccinated against varicella in 1995 developed encephalomyloneuritis and required hospitalization for months. Children's deaths of any kind are rare, researchers noted. In normal times Norway typically sees 45 deaths among nursing residents each week. possibilities of This is true, and EXACTLY why scientists prefer to measure EXCESS MORTALITY to assess the true toll of the pandemicwhich counts how many deaths from any cause there have been ABOVE AND BEYOND what is expected. 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