VAERS System Is NOT Operating as Intended and Signals Are Being Missed
Or maybe the signals are just being ignored
The BMJ recently published an investigative report which raised concerns that the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) isn’t operating as intended and that signals are being missed.
There are many people, including myself, who have been saying this for the last three years.
What is VAERS?
• VAERS is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System co-managed by the CDC and FDA. It was founded in 1990 to track adverse events (side effects) including deaths from vaccines.
• This system was set up to monitor vaccine safety AFTER they are authorized or licensed for use and inform decisions about recommendations.
• VAERS is a passive surveillance system, meaning it relies on people sending in reports of their experiences after vaccination.
• While VAERS accepts reports from anyone including patients and family members, side effects (mild to severe) and deaths from the vaccines are REQUIRED to be reported by healthcare providers.
Note: The "FACT-CHECKERS" will have you believe that VAERS data should be ignored because individuals can submit their own entries. The fact-checkers fail to mention that it's a federal crime to submit false data to VAERS, thereby reducing the likelihood that this is the case. Nonetheless, entries should be INVESTIGATED, and NOT ignored simply because some entries could be falsified.
• In 2007, a Harvard study uncovered that less than 1% of actual adverse events from vaccines are reported to the VAERS system. (Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) (ahrq.gov)) Therefore, entries are made in only a small fraction of cases, making the actual counts much higher.
• You can report an adverse event or death and access/download all the data in VAERS by visiting:
An alternate system OpenVAERS has been established which allows for browsing and searching reports with a more user friendly interface.
Did you know the 1976 swine flu vaccine program was halted due to deaths after the injections?
In 1976, concerns in the United States about a possible influenza pandemic involving a virus similar to the deadly 1918 pandemic strain resulted in a large-scale vaccination program for the entire country. Approximately 45 million people were vaccinated in 10 weeks with what became known as the “swine flu vaccine”.
The US government abruptly stopped the vaccination program when no swine flu cases were detected outside the military base where the disease originated and when an unexpectedly high number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome were reported in vaccinated individuals. The vaccine was estimated to have caused approximately one Guillain-Barré syndrome case per 100,000 persons vaccinated, resulting in 53 deaths. As a result of the association between the 1976 swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome, this condition is closely monitored every influenza season as part of the influenza vaccine safety monitoring in the United States.
There was almost immediately a clear signal that something had gone horribly wrong.
As early as January 2021 deaths following COVID genetic injection began to be reported to VAERS with 122 deaths on January 27, 2021. This number continued to tick upwards to 1,198 by March 12, 2021. Also, other adverse events were being reported in unprecedented numbers. By September 9, 2021 there were 675,591 reports of adverse events in OpenVAERS with 14,506 deaths, 18,400 permanently disabilities, 27,300 severe allergic reactions PLUS 5,700 anaphylaxis, 7,900 Bell’s Palsy cases (paralysis), 11,700 heart attacks/myocarditis/pericarditis, 7,800 shingles, and 58,400 hospitalizations.
An analysis of data reported in VAERS from December 17, 2020 through April 1, 2021 concluded there is a direct correlation of adverse events and the ‘vaccines’. About 70% of Individuals had ‘symptoms’ within 48 hours of being injected with either the first or second dose which shows that the events are causally linked to the injections.
“Analysis suggests that the vaccines are likely the cause of reported deaths, spontaneous abortions, anaphylactic reactions and cardiovascular, neurological and immunological AEs”.
WHY WERE WE MONITORING SAFETY FOR AN UNAPPROVED PRODUCT?!
Remember, VAERS is a post-licensure vaccine safety monitoring system. In my opinion, the first death should have halted the roll out of the mRNA genetic vaccines since they were only EUA approved and had not been fully licensed.
Not only that, it took just six VAERS reports of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome after administration of the Janssen (J&J) COVID genetic vaccine for regulators to issue a “pause” in April 2021. The blood clotting disorder was reported within six to thirteen days after injection in six women between the ages of 18 and 48. One woman died and another was hospitalized. Unfortunately even this pause didn’t last and FDA and CDC jointly lifted it just ten days later.
OpenVAERS was the first to raise concerns about this deceptive bookkeeping system by the CDC.
From doctors unable to file reports to disappearing data, there were limits on transparency and lack of resources to follow up on concerning vaccine reactions. Not only that staffing levels failed to keep pace with the unprecedented number of reports since the rollout of COVID genetic vaccines and there are signs that the system was overwhelmed, reports weren’t being followed up, and signals were being missed. VAERS’s standard operating procedure for COVID stated that reports must be processed quickly, within days of receipt. To this day, there are clinicians that have not heard back from clinical reviewers, even after having reported a death.
There have been an unprecedented 1.7 million reports since the rollout of COVID genetic vaccines. This was more reports than for all other vaccines combined over the past 30 years.
The latest confirmed number of staff, as of November 2022—at the Immunization Safety Office, which houses VAERS—was 70-80 full time equivalent workers.
In comparison, a February 2021 Pfizer analysis of adverse event reports showed that the company had onboarded 600 additional full time employees to handle the volume and planned to employ a total of 1800. The fact that this much staffing was needed to sort through all the reports of adverse events should have been the first clue that something had gone horribly wrong with the injections.
Most concerning has been the lack of transparency. As discovered by the BMJ investigation, there are two sets of books; the actual VAERS data (that are hidden) that contains such information as a formal diagnosis, recovery, or death and the truncated data that are available to the public through CDC WONDER.
Our investigation has also found that, in stark contrast to the US government’s handling of adverse reaction reports on drugs and devices, the publicly accessible VAERS database on vaccines includes only initial reports, while case updates and corrections are kept on a separate, back end system.
Source: https://www.openvaers.com/component/acym/archive/64-the-bmj-publishes-investigation-of-vaers
VAERS data are too important to be hidden inside a bureaucracy with no oversight. There is no justification for this. It is technically possible to supply this information to the public and independent researchers. The fact that CDC has the technical wherewithal to do it but not the desire can be seen by their specifically telling General Dynamics Information Technology (in their update contract), NOT to do it.
Why has the CDC/FDA turning a blind eye to the very system set up to track adverse events?
VAERS’ failure isn’t accidental.
“It is not broken,” Benavides wrote in his Substack coverage of The BMJ investigation. “VAERS runs cover for the big pharma cabal.”
I could benefit greatly from your help on a study Dr. Smith right now, please sub to https://deepdots.substack.com/ if it's ok for me to have your email (the notification will show it) and I'll share this latest wrinkle on VAERS with you that I think you'll find worthwhile, relevant to the BMJ article also.
It’s data tampering. It has always made me laugh everyone playing around with the data during covid because the majority of the data is dirty in how it was collected...from adverse events, to PCR case reporting, to deaths from covid. The 1976 politicization of the shot was just as bad, but interestingly there was strong adherence to safety.