She noticed some bruises and had aching in her knees, hands and feet. So there is no way to explain the excess deaths which are effectively over 640,000 for a 41 underreporting factor. This may sound similar to another argument that many COVID-19 deaths in older adults are deaths that would have happened anyway. 2016 Aug 17;34(37):4406-14. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.07.019. and nurses do not know about VAERS and what is required to be reported. SUNAGA Y, HIKIMA A, OSTUKA T, MORIKAWA A: Acute cerebellar ataxia with abnormal MRI lesions after varicella vaccination. 9. The rash slowly subsided but left scars. Results: The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a valuable tool for post-marketing safety surveillance (monitoring after a product has been approved and is on the market). We are constantly exposed to a wide variety of viral antigens that cause our immune system to develop antibodies against them. Of course, whenever you see these sorts of numbers, two questions should come straight to you mind right away. 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). First, lets get back to the question of the denominator. The average age of those who died was 76.5. It is a statement of fact that there are over 3,000 reports of deaths in VAERS among people who received a Covid vaccine. Twenty-eight months following varicella vaccination (October 29, 2002), he developed breakthrough chickenpox with an estimated 30 to 40 lesions that were intensely itchy. All narrative text taken from original VAERS reports are classified with Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) concepts. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. VAERS reports vary in quality and completeness and under-reporting, especially of mild and self-limiting AEs, appears common. (1997) 126(10):833-834. Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. She underwent a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with the rare and more serious collagenous colitis. He took Acyclovir Oral Suspension (200mg/5ml): Two teaspoons 4 times a day for 5 days. Her physician recommended prompt vaccination and she received a first dose of varicella vaccine on May 18, 1998. With the authority of the CDC, whose official seal adorns the webpage, VAERS packs a shock. That claim is based on an old study about drug reactions and was not specific to vaccines. Raw data is available from 1990- May 14, 2013 and can be downloaded using ZIP files or Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files. Have you heard the claim that only 1% of serious vaccine reactions are reported to VAERS? My topic here is not VAERS generally, but a number that recurs often in discussions about the vaccine injury reports VAERS contains. What has been reported to VAERS is less than the expected baseline death rate in the US for any given day pre-pandemic (the death figures used were for the year 2019). 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. Dr. Gorski's full information can be found here, along with information for patients. The patient's nausea decreased and her fever subsided. Paediatr. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. The bottom line is that 285 deaths after COVID-19 vaccination reported to VAERS in a timeframe of 40 days is actually a very small number. 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. J Pers Med. to 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%. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. Deaths definitely get ones attention and are far more likely to be reported than any other AE. 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 endstream endobj 285 0 obj <>/Metadata 22 0 R/Outlines 32 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/Pages 282 0 R/StructTreeRoot 49 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 286 0 obj <>/Font<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Type/Page>> endobj 287 0 obj <>stream Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. , has stirred controversy in recent days over his concerns about COVID-19 vaccine safety. The reports, filed on the VAERS website between Dec. 14, 2020 and Jan. 22, describe outcomes ranging from foaming at the mouth to massive heart attacks to did not recover.. From 2012 through 2016, vaccine providers submitted 32% of U.S. VAERS reports; vaccine manufacturers submitted 41%; patients . Methods: 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. Clearly that Harvard study is where the gold is. In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . She was seen by her physician because of an irregular heart rate and an ECG revealed supra ventricular extra systoles and left ventricular hypertrophy. Am. * Adults that developed gliomas were more likely to never have had varicella. The true figure is likely to be significantly higher as Keyhole excludes Instagram and private Facebook groups from its analytics. Her pre-study laboratory values were completely normal. 2022 Jul 26;23(15):8235. doi: 10.3390/ijms23158235. J. Infect. Its not just vaccines and autism, either. As of today, the online database alleges 1349 U.S. deaths attributable to COVID-19 vaccines. For anaphylaxis and GBS, VAERS sensitivity is comparable to previous estimates for detecting important AEs following vaccination. During Healthcare providers are required by law to report to VAERS: Case "B" A man who was vaccinated against varicella in 1995 developed encephalomyloneuritis and required hospitalization for months. Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - HHS.gov, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 113% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There is another story being missed regarding that Harvard Pilgrim study, though. 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. 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. If youve been reading this blog a while, you can probably guess. 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. Case D J. Epidem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not respond to HPR requests for comment. The true number is likely slightly higher, given that the denominator includes one additional week of vaccinations administered compared to the VAERS figures, which only go until January 22, but, again, this is a back-of-the-envelope calculation, in which the orders of magnitude matter more than the precise figure. At present, demand for the vaccine is high and supply is constrained, but as the U.S. hurtles toward President Bidens May 1 deadline for universal vaccine eligibility, supply may begin to outpace demand for the injection. This, of course, is intended to increase reporting of adverse events to VAERS. SINGER S, JOHNSON CE, MOHR R, HOLOWECKY C: Urticaria following varicella vaccine associated with gelatin allergy. So, OK whatever the number is, its not 6,000. Epub 2016 Jul 19. 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. 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 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), was to construct the below flow of data in order to support the first two Aims: Figure 1. Objectives: Case B Wrensch et al. 112:495, 2003. Unsurprisingly, RFK Jr. and CHD are full ofwell, a brown stinky substance. Ann. She was admitted to a hospital for rehydration after losing 12 lbs or more than 10% of her previous healthy weight. Covid-19 was the eighth leading cause of death among children in recent months, according to a study published Monday. (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. risk Am. VAERS Data includes information about the patients demographics, and data related to their adverse event. In spite of treatment with Acyclovir* the rash lasted for 45 days. Before endstream endobj startxref Risk increases with each dose of vaccine as well. . . 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. 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). Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Singh RB, Parmar UPS, Kahale F, Agarwal A, Tsui E. Ophthalmology. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors. Case A Thats not to say that only severe or serious adverse reactions should be reported. 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. So lets get back to RFK Jr. and his deceptive article by the Childrens Health Defense Team. NASERI A, GOOD WV, CUNNINGHAM ET JR: Herpes zoster virus sclerokeratitis and anterior uveitis in a child following varicella vaccination. Eight days after vaccination, she developed a fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, malaise and dizziness. J. Ophthalmol. This time around, theyve resurrected the old antivaccine trick of deceptively misusing the VAERS database to imply causation from VAERS reports. Methods: We estimated VAERS reporting rates following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS. anti-covid. Synthetic and real test data was been generated and transmitted between Harvard and Constella. Hematol. way the data are used by public health officials and the vaccine industry This 3.5-year-old boy from Georgia who had no pre-existing conditions, received a dose of varicella vaccine on May 12, 1995. Yet the presumption of significantly higher real numbers is supported by a 2010 Harvard Pilgrim study which found that "fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries" are reported on VAERS. (1995) 37(5):648-650. ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes. JAMA. Two months later on May 13, 2004 he had still another recurrence with moderate pain, in the same location as previously mentioned. by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies Monitoring the safety of high-dose, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS), 2011 - 2019. Overview of the ESP:VAERS project . whether or not they believe the vaccination was the cause. All rights reserved. Lastly, VAERS Vaccine gives information about the origin and type of vaccine. 57, No. 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 reason, to reiterate, is that VAERS is unique among US vaccine safety reporting systems in that it is a passive surveillance system. The first is: Whats the denominator? The CDC told Reuters. Disclaimer 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. 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. consequently the incidence rate reported to VAERS was 0.10 KD cases per That purpose, contrary to what antivaxxers would have you believe, is not as the be-all and end-all of vaccine safety surveillance. 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. Still, it's a good way to detect safety signals that weren't detected during premarket testing or clinical trials . Jpn. Her ANA became positive and she developed autoimmune thyroid disease with a high TSH. * 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. 2022 Jul 29;12(8):1242. doi: 10.3390/jpm12081242. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event. David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery and member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology at Wayne State University. We also know that underreporting is less common for more severe adverse reactions than for those that are more mild. Vaccine (1999) 17(4):327-329. The first report of an adverse reaction following varicella vaccination was filed with VAERS (ID 74221) on May 26, 1995. 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. 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. But thats Norway. He received a third course of Acyclovir and the rash resolved after a month. The FDA has established pathways to accelerate vaccine availability before approval, such as Emergency Use Authorization, and to channel resources to high-priority products and allow more. 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. J Clin Pharm Ther. Competing interests: %%EOF Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.. She received a first dose of the vaccine in March and the second in May 2001. Still, its limitations aside, VAERS has its place if you understand its intended purpose. The VAERS dataset was created to manage reports of vaccine-associated side effects. Immonol. As the spread of coronavirus variants potentially jeopardises the efficacy of the vaccine rollout, so too does the spread of misinformation. 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. J. Pediatr. The VAERS system keeps track of any unusual or unexpected adverse events that occur after vaccine administration. MeSH Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is among the best adverse event data collection systems in the world, but it's antiquated and difficult to use. period It is not just social media actors who have sought to capitalise on the CDCs implicit endorsement of VAERS content, with a Keyhole media analysis showing the biggest boosters of the VAERS site to be the notorious 4chan forums and the Russia Today state media organization. He remains permanently disabled. They also dont understand how the antivaccine movement has always been about more than just vaccines. 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. VAERS is the primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before confirmation can be made that an adverse event was linked to a vaccine. Re: Singh etal. MATSUBARA K, NIGAMI H, HARIGAYA H, BABA K: Herpes zoster in a normal child after varicella vaccination. Conclusion Ds mother was initially fearful and refused the varicella vaccine for her daughter. Since varicella disease is relatively benign, only a few serious adverse reactions might offset the intended benefits. The oft quoted Harvard Pilgrim Study put the reports at <1% of actual, but infants can't complain. Then they invoke the deaths in nursing homes in Norway gambit. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! The weaponization of VAERS by anti-vaccine activists serves as a reminder that having access to more information does not always lead to better decisions. 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). 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. This provides a useful policy contrast to the unfettered publication of unverified claims by the U.S. CDC and FDA. The estimated underreporting factor for COVID jab . I fully expect that, just as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for use in children, antivaxxers will start claiming that the vaccine causes autism and SIDS. As Skeptical Raptor notes, it was due to a certificate error: The problem is the SSL certificate was generated for vaers.hhs.gov but he is going to http://www.vaers.hhs.gov. It is a reference to substantiate claims that the CDC has no interest in making reports of vaccine injury either more accurate or more comprehensive. Vaccine-Associated Uveitis after COVID-19 Vaccination: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Database Analysis. 7. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Paediatr. These coincidences make it difficult to know whether a particular adverse event resulted from a medical condition or from a vaccination. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) form : version 2.0 (proposed) October 30, 2014 By Shimabukuro, Tom T. Series: ACIP meeting Vaccine Safety English CITE Download Document Details Related Documents You May Also Like Details: Personal Author: Shimabukuro, Tom T. Corporate Authors: In other words, it would have dramatically increased both the accuracy and the number of vaccine injuries reported to VAERS. It is primarily a hypothesis-generating, not hypothesis-testing, system when it comes to questions related to vaccine safety. vaccine-caused illness? 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. This brings us to the second question: Whats the baseline rate? Heres Seth Trueger: how many Americans typically die per day? Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. 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). Competing interests: Prediction of post-vaccination Guillain-Barr syndrome using data from a passive surveillance system. Reports vary in quality and completeness. Gradually she was able to work for a few hours at a time. No competing interests, Medical Veritas International (MVI), P.O. FOIA !F+% H30Dif>$cBT1n0 "|G No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. When the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was established in 1990, its creators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would have scarcely imagined the government program would become a leading vector for vaccine misinformation amidst a global pandemic. Case E convulsions in young children given seasonal flu vaccine, but the problems, with voluntary reporting systems, underreporting of adverse events and the. Her symptoms worsened at the age of 6. In a July 13 letter to health agency leaders, Johnson noted a press conference he . Data is presented by year and is divided into three subcategories. Epub 2022 Aug 31. Sensitivity was reported as either a single value, or a range if data were available from >1 study. A VAERS report was filed January 30, 2000. A 35-year old female who had never had varicella, was exposed to infected children. 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!) Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. In that intervew Dr. Zelenko states a common refrain about VAERS reporting: If you look at the 2009 Harvard study on the VAERS system, they said only 1% of events are actually reported. 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 . Basically, VAERS is a passive reporting system, in which anyone can report suspected adverse events after any vaccination to be recorded in the database. vaccinedeathreport - Read online for free. HAMMERSCHLAG MR, GERSHON AA, STEINBERG SP, CLARKE L, GELB LD: Herpes zoster in an adult recipient of live attenuated varicella vaccine. It is bewildering, therefore, 2020 Jul 22;38(34):5464-5473. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.038. 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. Bookshelf government site. As with all antivax talking points, its meant to deceive. Maintained/created by: Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug AdministrationWebsite: http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/indexGeographic unit of data: U.S National, U.S. State, Keywords: adverse event, CDC, FDA, Reporting, side effects, vaccination, vaccine, Users can access data pertaining to clinically significant medical events that occur after vaccination in the United States. 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. Patients, parents and caregivers are encouraged to report "any clinically important medical event or health problem that. While the CDC and FDA disclaimers go to great lengths to point out that reports within VAERS are not verified causal claims, in a world where users absorb headline information and where small-scale disinformation campaigns have been shown to have calamitous consequences, one must question whether publishing VAERS vaccine data in its current form achieves more harm than good. health VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse reactions to . 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. Neurol. COVID-19 Vaccines and Myopericarditis: A Nuanced Story. 2020 Aug 18;38(37):5923-5926. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.07.007. She developed diarrhea shortly after the second dose and by November 2001, she was quite ill and had serious intestinal difficulties. VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) is the voluntary system used in the U.S. to signal vaccine side effects. especially Reports vary in quality and completeness. The high mean of 3,000 reports/year is attributed to the Hepatitis B vaccine, followed next by a mean of 2,350 reports/year attributed to varicella vaccine (Table 1). These symptoms along with dizziness persisted for weeks and she had difficulty going from her bed to the bathroom without assistance. 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)? PMC The department then gives the example of injection-site soreness,. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and by the Food and Drug Administration. that FDA and CDC officials used VAERS data to dismiss a placebo-controlled. A quote from the in-question Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. study: "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. The degree According to the VAERS data, of the 329 reported deaths, 285 were from the U.S., and 44 were from other countries. There is no citation for that sentence. 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.. Children's deaths of any kind are rare, researchers noted. The US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is "overwhelmed" with reports of vaccine adverse effects in the wake of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, cardiologist Dr. Peter. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Her joint pains became episodic but more intense during the attacks and she experienced some muscle weakness on and off. The lot number associated with each vaccine is recorded in the VAERS data base. Careers. Pediatr. adverse Your connection is not private, it says in large font on my screen (fig 1). Each of the three occurrences of the shingles rash was on his left side. As I will show, antivaxxers are playing an old game with new vaccines. : Vaccine-associated uveitis following COVID-19 vaccination: vaccine adverse event reporting system database analysis. 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. An EMG revealed involvement in an ulnar distribution. Q ZO!G("p The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. We defined reporting sensitivity as the VAERS reporting rate divided by the VSD incidence rate. 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. Med. Flora J, Khan W, Jin J, Jin D, Hussain A, Dajani K, Khan B. Int J Mol Sci. ** The author writes concerning neurological complications, "There is no way of predicting who will have an adverse reaction to vaccination. Of features resolved after a month is intended to increase reporting of adverse events that occur after vaccine administration after., VAERS sensitivity is comparable to previous estimates for detecting important AEs following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS VAERS. ( vaccine adverse event following vaccination for anaphylaxis and GBS, VAERS collects data on any adverse resulted. Was diagnosed with the authority of the shingles rash was on his left side she seen. 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