VAERS lists more than 1.52 million reports of adverse reactions after Covid vaccination
The database of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the US now lists 1,559,995 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 33,704 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,302 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
(The 35,302 total is lower than the 35,387 figure reported last week. I’m checking to see whether this is an error or whether some reports of death have been removed.)
The statistics are dated up to May 19, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters, 7,143,721 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,700 reports described as vaccination failure and 71,580 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 35,925 reports of an expired product being administered, 33,785 reports of a product storage error, 29,968 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,403 reports of off-label use, 13,649 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,218 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,415 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,295 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,528 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered.
VAERS now has a separate category, ‘COVID19-2’, which contains data about the bivalent boosters. In this category, there are 32,230 reports of adverse reactions up to May 19, but 4,295 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
There are 275 reports of death after vaccination (174 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 101 after administration of the Moderna vaccine), and 407 reports of permanent disability (251 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 156 after administration of the Moderna vaccine). A total 129,584 individual-symptom events are listed.
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,416 cases of Covid-19 and 5,007 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 4,758 reports of a product storage error, 2,241 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,044 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,409 reports of underdosing, 1,269 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 761 reports of the wrong product being administered, 721 reports of an extra dose being administered, 425 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 388 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 379 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, and 309 reports of a “product preparation issue”.
As of May 10, 2023, 56.4 million people in the US had received a bivalent booster dose.
The CDD says on the ‘COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States’ web page that the update published on May 11 is the “final update” of vaccination statistics on that page
It says that, on June 15, 2023, a new page displaying updated vaccination data will be available.
The data provided on CDC COVID Data Tracker: Vaccine Confidence and COVID VaxView is complex. The at-a-glance table provided on the ‘COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States’ web page is not available on these pages.
ALL THE FOLLOWING DATA ARE FROM BOTH COVID VACCINE CATEGORIES COMBINED
There is now a disclaimer on the wonder.cdc.gov website. It states: “At the request of European regulators, CDC and FDA have removed certain data fields (country codes; reported symptom case narrative free text; diagnostic laboratory data free text field; illness at time of vaccination free text field; chronic conditions free text medical history field; allergies free text field) from foreign VAERS reports which were submitted to VAERS and may not comply with European regulations. Domestic (U.S.) VAERS reports are not affected by this process.”
According to the latest data, VAERS received 17,481 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 17,821 from foreign locations.
The 35,302 total includes the 174 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 101 after administration of a Moderna booster.
According to VAERS, a total 22,267 deaths followed administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 10,101 followed administration of the Moderna vaccines, and 2,882 followed administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine (this is a lower total than the 3,005 figure reported last week). In 244 cases, the name of the vaccine manufacturer was not specified in the report.
A total 4,149 of the reported deaths occurred on the same day as vaccination, 3,142 occurred the following day, 579 occurred within seven days, 1,615 occurred within ten to 14 days, and 2,782 occurred within 15 to 30 days.
According to Worldometers.info there had been 1,164,934 deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of May 26, 2023.
According to the CDC’s Covid data tracker, 676,728,782 Covid vaccine doses had been administered in the US as of May 10, 2023.
On VAERS 934,132 reports (up to May 19 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,483,692 individual-symptom events), 529,114 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,222,612 individual-symptom events), 97,798 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (442,405 individual-symptom events), 304 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,276 individual-symptom events), and 11,968 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (48,519 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 66,198. VAERS lists, as of May 19, 47,315 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,669 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,300 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 358 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of May 19 VAERS lists 11,397 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,294), seizure-like phenomena (645), and partial seizures (316) are listed separately.
There are 13,921 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,649 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,106), pulmonary thrombosis (1,174) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (988). There are 208,719 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 60,411 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive
There are 9,687 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,691 reports of sleep disorders, 14,131 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,756 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,402 reports of blindness, and 3,526 reports of deafness. As of May 19 there were 25,029 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,598 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of May 19 along with 161 reports of stillbirth, 15,931 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,244 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,406 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,914 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,318 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of May 19, along with 7,006 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,325 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,032 reports of facial paresis. There are also 224 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 16,880 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to May 19, 2023. VAERS lists 88 reports of viral myocarditis, 24 cases of eosinophilic myocarditis, 12 cases of giant cell myocarditis, nine cases of hypersensitivity myocarditis, eight cases of infectious myocarditis, six cases of immune-mediated myocarditis, five reports of autoimmune myocarditis, five cases of chronic myocarditis, four cases of septic myocarditis, three cases of post-infection myocarditis, three cases of mycotic myocarditis, two cases of bacterial myocarditis, two cases of coxsackie myocarditis, and one case of enterovirus myocarditis.
The VAERS data also includes 11,169 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 712 cases of myopericarditis, 102 cases of pleuropericarditis, 61 cases of viral pericarditis, 36 cases of constrictive pericarditis, 16 cases of infective pericarditis, five cases of purulent pericarditis, three cases of adhesive pericarditis, two cases of bacterial pericarditis, two cases of autoimmune pericarditis, one case of uraemic pericarditis, one case of rheumatic pericarditis, one case of gonococcal pericarditis, one case of cytomegalovirus pericarditis, and one case of lupus pericarditis.
A total 8,891 reports of an anaphylactic reaction after Covid vaccination are listed up to May 19.
There is more detail about these statistics on my Changing Times website along with data from other adverse event databases.
The World Health Organisation updates its VigiBase statistics every Sunday.
The EudraVigilance statistics are usually updated on Mondays.