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 1,558,671 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 33,495 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,387 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
The statistics are dated up to May 12, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters, 7,135,805 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,761 reports described as vaccination failure and 71,452 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 35,814 reports of an expired product being administered, 33,716 reports of a product storage error, 29,914 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,394 reports of off-label use, 13,648 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,204 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,412 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,288 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,524 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 31,795 reports of adverse reactions up to May 12, but 4,181 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
There are 269 reports of death after vaccination (170 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 99 after administration of the Moderna vaccine) and 401 reports of permanent disability (250 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 151 after administration of the Moderna vaccine). A total 127,963 individual-symptom events are listed.
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,336 cases of Covid-19 and 4,937 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 4,714 reports of a product storage error, 2,156 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,036 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,364 reports of underdosing, 1,256 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 733 reports of the wrong product being administered, 716 reports of an extra dose being administered, 419 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 386 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 375 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, and 304 reports of a “product preparation issue”.
As of May 10, 2023, 56.4 million people in the US had received a bivalent booster dose.
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 17,568 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 17,819 from foreign locations.
The 35,387 total includes the 170 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 99 after administration of a Moderna booster.
According to VAERS, a total 22,234 deaths followed administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 10,092 followed administration of the Moderna vaccines, and 3,005 followed administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine. In 246 cases, the name of the vaccine manufacturer was not specified in the report.
A total 4,145 of the reported deaths occurred on the same day as vaccination, 3,141 occurred the following day, 579 occurred within seven days, 1,612 occurred within ten to 14 days, and 2,781 occurred within 15 to 30 days.
According to Worldometers.info there had been 1,164,019 deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of May 20, 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 932,834 reports (up to May 12 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,476,777 individual-symptom events), 528,583 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,220,498 individual-symptom events), 98,300 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (443,470 individual-symptom events), 300 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,267 individual-symptom events), and 11,905 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (48,262 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 66,046. VAERS lists, as of May 12, 47,188 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,646 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,299 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 354 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of May 12 VAERS lists 11,391 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,292), seizure-like phenomena (644), and partial seizures (314) are listed separately.
There are 13,887 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,694 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,084), pulmonary thrombosis (1,172) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (992). There are 208,455 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 60,301 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive
There are 9,683 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,670 reports of sleep disorders, 14,119 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,752 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,401 reports of blindness, and 3,522 reports of deafness. As of May 12 there were 25,006 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,594 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of May 12 along with 160 reports of stillbirth, 15,922 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,245 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,395 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,911 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,320 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of May 12, along with 7,001 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,320 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,029 reports of facial paresis. There are also 224 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 16,864 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to May 12, 2023. VAERS lists 88 reports of viral myocarditis, 24 cases of eosinophilic myocarditis, 11 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 11,159 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 706 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 12.
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.