(1997) 126(10):833-834. It's a shame because VAERS plays a vital role in detecting important but rare reactions caused by vaccines. Seeking a new model to lower wait times, but also improve patient choice of care, County Council Senior Medical . Basically, in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, everything old is new again, and antivaxxers have used the same old playbook to misuse VAERS reports in the age of COVID-19. 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 . 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. In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of up to two years of sometimes debilitating pain, intermittent missed work and income, and the trials of disability. Share on Facebook, opens a new window Heres what I mean: As of Jan. 22, 329 deaths a subset of 9,845 total adverse events had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID-19 vaccinations. Data is presented by year and is divided into three subcategories. the 18-year period from 1990 through 2007 just 88 cases of Kawasaki If youve been reading this blog a while, you can probably guess. Reports vary in quality and completeness. 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. Rather, it was always intended to serve as an early warning system, a canary in the coalmine, so to speak. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help 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. This 3.5-year-old boy from Georgia who had no pre-existing conditions, received a dose of varicella vaccine on May 12, 1995. Wu, a former . Here is the statement, with a bit of context: Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Children's deaths of any kind are rare, researchers noted. Keep in mind, this system would have extracted probable vaccine injury information from patient charts and fed it directly into the VAERS system. The U.S. consequently the incidence rate reported to VAERS was 0.10 KD cases per 20.8 per 100,000 person-years. In fact I am unable to find any study of reporting efficiency to VAERS that would justify the 1% estimate as being either an over- or under-estimation of the percent of injuries being reported. and nurses do not know about VAERS and what is required to be reported. Then they invoke the deaths in nursing homes in Norway gambit. He took Acyclovir Oral Suspension (200mg/5ml): Two teaspoons 4 times a day for 5 days. MMWR Surveill Summ. risk J Pers Med. Indeed, antivaxxers have long loved to portray VAERS as the be-all and end-all of the databases monitoring vaccine safety. A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. Those of you whove been reading this blog and my not-so-super-secret other blog should be familiar with VAERS, as its been discussed many times on both. VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse reactions to . government site. and transmitted securely. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), was to construct the below flow of data in order to support the first two Aims: Figure 1. 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. 0 An HPR Keyhole analysis of social media indicates that over a 24-hour period in March, an expected 350,000 people had viewed or interacted with anti-vaccine information originating from the VAERS database. 12. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies On June 12, 2003 (age 5), he had a unilateral shingles eruption on the back of his neck. As the spread of coronavirus variants potentially jeopardises the efficacy of the vaccine rollout, so too does the spread of misinformation. If confirmed by a larger trial, the KD The reason, to reiterate, is that VAERS is unique among US vaccine safety reporting systems in that it is a passive surveillance system. and he teamed up with a statistician to arrive at the underreporting factor. Table 1 presents a comparison of the number of adverse reactions reported to VAERS for the varicella vaccine with 4 other different vaccines. J. Epidem. Links to VAERS are included. According to open Vaers, almost 9k have died from the vaccine in the US. (2003) 135(3):415-417. 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. First, the denominator, which CHD provides without using it appropriately: According to the Washington Post, as of Jan. 29, 22 million people in the U.S. had received one or both doses of a COVID vaccine. 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. The mismatch is causing the browser to think that the user is not going to the genuine site. The misuse of VAERS to demonize COVID-19 vaccines is just another example of how old antivaccine tactics and tropes have been resurrected, dressed up, and updated to be deployed against COVID-19 vaccines. The degree of underreporting varies widely. adverse Moreover, the CDC and FDA do not restrict what people can report, as long as it happened at some point following a vaccination. With the authority of the CDC, whose official seal adorns the webpage, VAERS packs a shock. This is a system that sends regular text messages to those whove been vaccinated to ask them about side effects and in general how they feel. Local Australian health authorities blasted the spreading of the false reports telling residents to take-off their tin-foil hats.. How can public She received a first dose of the vaccine in March and the second in May 2001. Whos Really Responsible for Climate Change? 2022 Harvard Political Review. For anaphylaxis and GBS, VAERS sensitivity is comparable to previous estimates for detecting important AEs following vaccination. Universal Varicella Vaccination program assumptions that (1) a single dose offered long-term immunity, and (2) there is no immunologically-mediated link between varicella incidence and herpes-zoster incidence are seriously flawed. And the CDCs role in the dissemination of vaccine misinformation, unwilling though it may be, is attracting increasing scrutiny as it jeopardises what President Biden calls his administrations most important battle: the global coronavirus vaccine rollout. But thats Norway. (1995) 13(4):340-342. No competing interests, Medical Veritas International (MVI), P.O. During the same During the 18-year period from 1990 through 2007 just 88 cases of Kawasaki Disease in children under 5 were reported to VAERS. The true figure is likely to be significantly higher as Keyhole excludes Instagram and private Facebook groups from its analytics. Background: Reporting of adverse events (AEs) following vaccination can help identify rare or unexpected complications of immunizations and aid in characterizing potential vaccine safety signals. In the time since the CDC was approached for comment by the HPR, the shareable buttons have been removed from the site. The shock of Covid-19 hit in different ways for Xiao Wu, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student in Harvard's public health school, and his academic adviser, biostatistician Francesca Dominici. Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine. An EMG revealed involvement in an ulnar distribution. Now, add this to the mix, for comparison: how many people are dying of COVID in the US per day? 6/15/07. J. Infect. 1. . A CDC database that was mostly unknown except to a small segment of the population is now regularly in the news. A study about it found less than 1% were reported (3). The startling statistics are being shared far and wide by anti-vaccination activists and concerned readers alike. It is primarily a hypothesis-generating, not hypothesis-testing, system when it comes to questions related to vaccine safety. The term underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. Acta. (1995) 37(5):648-650. Usefulness of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for Machine-Learning Based Vaccine Research: A Case Study for COVID-19 Vaccines. 5. Whats 285 divided by 22 million? A man who was vaccinated against varicella in 1995 developed encephalomyloneuritis and required hospitalization for months. The patient's nausea decreased and her fever subsided. Since varicella disease is relatively benign, only a few serious adverse reactions might offset the intended benefits. J. Pediatr. Vaccine. Dis. J Clin Pharm Ther. The Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP: VAERS) project sought to create a generalizable system to facilitate detection and clinician reporting of vaccine adverse events. 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. Thats not to say that only severe or serious adverse reactions should be reported. We are constantly exposed to a wide variety of viral antigens that cause our immune system to develop antibodies against them. Jpn. Intern. Sadly, those over 80, especially those already frail enough to be a nursing home, already have high BASELINE mortality. There is another story being missed regarding that Harvard Pilgrim study, though. 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. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. If anyone can find one or several citations that actually seek to quantify VAERS underreporting, please send me a note. The database makes for gruesome reading, with side-effects of the vaccine appearing to include brain death, herpes and even one case of a gunshot wound. 2006 the published KD incidence for U.S. children under 5 rose from 11.0 We know according to a Harvard study that VAERS is only thought to represent 1% of actual injuries." Unsurprisingly, its one of the usual suspects responsible, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.), in the form of a post in his antivaccine publication The Defender entitled 329 Deaths + 9,516 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show. 2. 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. and Nobel Prize winner turned homeopathy believer, antivaxxer, autism quack, and now COVID-19 crank, Luc Montagnier. The degree This type of propaganda is so harmful to our County residents, with The Mountaineer reporting 84 people who have lost their lives and over 3600 who have contracted Covid-19 right here in Haywood. More than 485 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from Dec. 14, 2020 . Background Users can access data pertaining to clinically significant medical events that occur after vaccination in the United States. The CDC blocked both the data collection by the Harvard Pilgrim group, and also any implementation that could have followed from their findings. whether or not they believe the vaccination was the cause. Have you heard the claim that only 1% of serious vaccine reactions are reported to VAERS? True, someone did contact him to question it. Healthcare providers are required by law to report to VAERS: Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. 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 . Eight days after vaccination, she developed a fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, malaise and dizziness. Zhou W, Pool V, Iskander JK, English-Bullard R, Ball R, Wise RP, Haber P, Pless RP, Mootrey G, Ellenberg SS, Braun MM, Chen RT. 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. 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. by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. Results: 11. Am. He developed convulsions the following day, was hospitalized, and reportedly recovered. Table 1. Co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, VAERS was established in 1990 to detect possible safety problems with vaccines.. This time, the pain was more severe. It just states it as fact. apply 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. HAMMERSCHLAG MR, GERSHON AA, STEINBERG SP, CLARKE L, GELB LD: Herpes zoster in an adult recipient of live attenuated varicella vaccine. 4. She was admitted to a hospital for rehydration after losing 12 lbs or more than 10% of her previous healthy weight. 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. A VAERS report was filed January 30, 2000. Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:483, 2010) Even for infants 3-6 VAERS, Underreporting, and the Mysterious 1% A CDC database that was mostly unknown except to a small segment of the population is now regularly in the news. So how are antivaxxers weaponizing VAERS? Conclusions: Of the US primary reports received between 2012 and 2016, 0.4% reported death as the outcome; 5% reported a serious nonfatal adverse event (as defined above), and 94.6% reported non-serious events (CDC, unpublished data). So I suppose I shouldnt be surprised that antivaxxers are now weaponizing the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database to try to blame all manner of adverse events on vaccines, whether there is evidence of causation or not. The phenomenon of molecular mimicry explains why some people's immune system will mistakenly respond to the measles antigen, for instance, in the vaccine because some of its amino acid groupings, its epitopes, are the same as those in the protein of a previously encountered viral antigen." Case "C" An adult female, age 47, became disabled following varicella vaccination. 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. As Dr. Vincent Iannelli points out: Still, although reports to VAERS are underreported, they are almost certainly not underreported by as much as some folks believe. Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. VAERS cannot determine if a vaccine was the specific cause of an adverse event. Surveillance for safety after immunization: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)--United States, 1991-2001. The Harvard Pilgraim study is here for all to see: https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf, Naturopathic physician, licensed acupuncturist, medical researcher. Because of this mismatch, the browser is rejecting it. 2, 3 Reasons for clinician under-reporting might include failure to associate an acute health event to recent vaccines, lack of awareness of VAERS, the misperception that only serious events should be reported, or lack of The VAERS dataset was created to manage reports of vaccine-associated side effects. As of today, the online database alleges 1349 U.S. deaths attributable to COVID-19 vaccines. That is, of course, the generic author that RFK Jr.s Childrens Health Defense gives to articles in The Defender that could include almost anyone on the team, all of whom are antivaccine to the core and the vast majority of whom are not scientists. 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. 2003 Jan 24;52(1):1-24. * Two-year-old boy with staggering gait and difficulty speaking. Flora J, Khan W, Jin J, Jin D, Hussain A, Dajani K, Khan B. Int J Mol Sci. Copyright The President and Fellows of Harvard College, Administration for Children and Families Database, Harvard T.H. 7. NARUSE H, MIWATA H, OZAKI T, ASANO Y, NAMAZUE J, YAMANISHI K: Varicella infection complicated with meningitis after immunization. !F+% H30Dif>$cBT1n0 "|G It is the Vaccine Adverse Event. Its basically against public health and any collective action to protect public health. He remains permanently disabled. Disclaimer. 300 0 obj <>stream Heres Seth Trueger: how many Americans typically die per day? It is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, commonly known as VAERS. He had moderate pain and the lesions were tender and sensitive to clothing. These symptoms along with dizziness persisted for weeks and she had difficulty going from her bed to the bathroom without assistance. in 2019, about 2.85 million Americans dies, for an annual rate of 869.7 per 100k, or 2.38 per 100k per day, from @CDCgov WONDER:https://t.co/GYD3eRpJAE, Seth Trueger (@MDaware) January 30, 2021. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event. At this age, infants are at greatest risk for certain medical adverse events, including high fevers, seizures, 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. An official website of the United States government. VAERS, Report an Adverse Event, accessed April 9, 2021. VAERS accepts reports from anyone, including patients, family members, healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers. Given that anyone can report any suspected adverse event, VAERS is intended to be an early warning system. Would you like email updates of new search results? 2021 May;30(5):602-609. doi: 10.1002/pds.5196. Case D 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]. In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . Her physician reassured her by saying: Do you think I would give the vaccination to my own children if I thought it wasn't safe? Her physician also informed her that state law mandates chickenpox vaccination but never told her that she could withhold her consent. A quote from the in-question Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. study: "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Nevertheless, VAERS rates have been estimated to represent 5% to 10% of the true figure of adverse reactions. In the letter, the lawmakers said a whistleblower alleged in sworn testimony that deaths and injuries recorded in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System "may be underreported by a factor of five.". Thats why Im going to take this opportunity to point out how, contrary to how one eminent academic oncologist like to put it, refuting antivaccine disinformation is anything but LeBron James dunking on a 7 hoop. (Pediatr Infect Dis J 28:943, 2009. Singh RB, Parmar UPS, Kahale F, Agarwal A, Tsui E. Ophthalmology. S. S. Korsakova. Thats 40 days, if you count December 14, 2020. so wed expect 96/100,000 deaths during that period. "Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. On any given 12-hour shift, I am seeing patients be admitted to the ICU within days or weeks of receiving the vaccines after suffering . officials rely on a system that reports fewer than 1% of adverse effects? With the rollout of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 finally starting to result in tens of millions of people receiving the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, with newer vaccines likely to be introduced in the coming months, the predictions that I (and many others) made months ago are coming to pass. 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 CPK was elevated to 676. 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