Once again -- no mainstream source (merely crap from the Gateway Pundit) -- pushing pure misinformation and clearly an abuse of VAERS which only reflects unproven data entered.
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Considering
anyone can report an adverse reaction without verification...many idiots do not know how it's abused. I will give you an example of abuse.
My mom has a close friend that's 75 years old. Her friend had a heart surgery back around 2011 and had one leg amputated in 2010...complications from a life long battle with Diabetes. The same disease that killed her mother back in the 80's.
During the Pandemic, her health continue declining and she became immunocompromised. Two months later she was vaccinated (Pfizer) due to the fact that they lived in a highly infectious city (Chicago).
Six months later, her health continued declining...she has another leg amputated as in she's now a double amputee. Her
anti-vax husband reported to VAERS that the amputation was due to the Pfizer Vaccine and he listed his wife intentionally in one of the younger age groups.

Initially when VAERS was developed...it was intended to be filled out only by Hospitals, Clinics, or Doctors...not by just anyone without verification. Today, it takes a report by
anyone including any anti-vax asswipe that's abusing the system.
Don’t Fall for the ‘VAERS Scare’ Tactic
Anti-vaxxers show how a precious vaccine adverse event reporting database can be used to scare the public.
Reports submitted to VAERS are reviewed by experts, like doctors, pharmacists and statisticians, and serious events are given additional scrutiny. It was
VAERS that initially detected a dangerous intestinal obstruction linked to RotaShield, a rotavirus vaccine that was subsequently withdrawn from the market by its manufacturer.
VAERS can also be used to see which preexisting health conditions may be associated with certain types of reactions, and this can lead to contraindications, as in the case of allergic reactions. The reporting system can also notice vaccine lots associated with an unusually high number of reported events (which might mean a rare case of a vaccine lot being contaminated) and it can identify specific locations in the United States where events are clustering.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/dont-fall-vaers-scare-tactic
VAERS is not all bad and not abused by everyone for the purpose of
fearmongering. Thus, it has had a good impact since its creation long before the Covid Pandemic. Yet, the following should concern anyone about its limitations.
VAERS does list the following at their CDC and FDA sites:
Limitations
- VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected. Instead someone who had or is aware of an adverse event following vaccination must file a report.
- VAERS reports are submitted by anyone and sometimes lack details or contain errors.
- VAERS data alone cannot determine if the vaccine caused the reported adverse event.
This specific limitation has caused confusion about the publicly available data, specifically regarding the number of reported deaths. In the past there have been instances where people misinterpreted reports of death following vaccination as death caused by the vaccines; that is a mistake.
VAERS accepts all reports of adverse events following vaccination without judging whether the vaccine caused the adverse health event. Some reports to VAERS might represent true vaccine reactions, and others might be coincidental adverse health events not related to vaccination at all.
By the way,
prior to the Pandemic...I had surgery on my knee to repair some damage after taking a slap shot in a hockey game. It occurred a few months after my FLU vaccine and a few years after a mystery injury to the same knee when I was in a coma back in 2016.
Yesterday, I twisted the same knee in a game of hockey while trying to do a
trick shot against my teenagers. By the way, I'm fully vaccinated with the Moderna, and if I develop blot clots in that same knee...I could report it to VAERS
without any consequences for me abusing the VAERS reporting system.
To VAERS...I am just
anyone and it has no way of knowing if all the problems I've ever had to that knee was from the FLU vaccine
or from the Covid vaccine when I really know what happened to my knee.
Yet, here in Canada...they state at Canada's Public Health site...
Should you experience an adverse event following immunization, please ask your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist to complete the Adverse Events following Immunization (AEFI) Form.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-hea...verse-events-following-immunization/form.html
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