Pandemic/Statistics/VAERS

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

VAERS is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

About VAERS

Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. VAERS is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS accepts and analyzes reports of adverse events (possible side effects) after a person has received a vaccination. Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. Healthcare professionals are required to report certain adverse events and vaccine manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their attention.

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

VAERS

The VAERS Home Page is located at https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html.

This page provides links to various resources to assist persons to access the data, report an adverse event, and more. Some points about the data follow:-

• The data can be searched online using the CDC Wonder Database. However, this is a bit tedious.
• The entire dataset can be downloaded and imported into your own database or spreadsheet. This is useful because you can browse the data when it is loaded in a spreadsheet, for example, and it is easy to filter. But this requires some skill with importing and formatting data.
• The data includes all previous adverse events which relate to vaccines and which have been reported by the recipient or a health professional. This is more than you need if you intend to focus only on adverse events following Covid vaccines.

A simple alternative exists and it is known as OpenVAERS.

OpenVAERS

OpenVAERS is a project developed by a small team of people with vaccine injuries or have children with vaccine injuries. We do not accept donations or solicit fees. There is zero monetization of this site. It is purely created in order to help others browse the VAERS records and to identify the reported signals that may otherwise get missed.

We built openVAERS because we found the HHS site difficult to navigate and get information from. We wanted a way to browse reports. Once we had that we decided to make it public.

Source: OpenVAERS Project FAQ

OpenVAERS Website

The OpenVAERS website is located at https://www.openvaers.com

Covid Vaccine Data

The team has produced a 'red box' page for VAERS COVID Vaccine Data which is acknowledged to be sourced from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, USA.
This interface provides statistics at a glance, and links to further data.

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Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (USA)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S)

Food and Drug Administration (USA)

Department of Health and Human Services (USA)