Interpreting VAERs: What is the expected background death rate for the USA vaccinated population? If vaccines were given at a random time, we would expect ~7k people to die the day of vaccination by random chance alone, even if the vaccines were perfectly safe and causing no deaths, >49k to die the week of vaccination, and >210k to die within a month of vaccination.
How much VAERS data are under-reporting actual vaccination side-effects? In November 2020, a paper was published in the journal Vaccines looking specifically at the question of estimating underreporting rates for VAERs for anaphylaxis (and Guillain Barre syndrome) for 7 different vaccines. They compared VAERs reporting rates to incident rates in the Vaccine Safety Database (VSD) network as a reference. VSD is organized by the CDC consisting of 9 healthcare organizations, shown to be representative of the USA population in many key demographic categories. This study found anaphylaxis had an URR between 1.3x to 8x, depending on the specific vaccine. See also:
- Why won't the CDC or FDA reveal the VAERS underreporting factor? (archive)
- What is the explanation for the high VAERS reporting of COVID vaccine side effects?
- Reports of vaccine side effects in VAERS can offer insight into vaccine hesitancy
- 661 Mainers died within 28 days of receiving a Covid-19 vaccination
- Peer reviewed Toxicology Reports article says vaccines kill 5 for every 1 save
- Therapeutic Nihilism and Untested Novel Therapies