VAERS lists more than 1.53 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 1,569,668 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 34,540 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,487 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
The statistics are dated up to June 23, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters, 7,189,196 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,759 reports described as vaccination failure and 72,169 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 36,642 reports of an expired product being administered, 34,100 reports of a product storage error, 30,138 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,430 reports of off-label use, 13,649 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,255 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,440 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,340 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,550 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 34,235 reports of adverse reactions up to June 23, but 4,927 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
A total 135,850 individual-symptom events are listed.
There are a total 295 reports of death after booster vaccination, but in the ‘vaccine manufacturer category’ there are 187 reports listed after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 109 after administration of the Moderna vaccine (296 total).
There are 426 reports of permanent disability (261 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 165 after administration of the Moderna vaccine).
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,634 cases of Covid-19 and 5,203 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 4,996 reports of a product storage error, 2,786 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,069 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,523 reports of underdosing, 1,300 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 814 reports of the wrong product being administered, 748 reports of an extra dose being administered, 442 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 407 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, 394 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, and 317 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 CDC said on the ‘COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States’ web page that the update published on May 11 was the “final update” of vaccination statistics on that page.
It said that, on June 15, 2023, a new page displaying updated vaccination data would be available.
On July 1, however, the Vaccination in States and Jurisdictions link was still sending people back to the May 10 data.
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 17,583 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 17,904 from foreign locations.
The 35,487 total includes the 187 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 109 after administration of a Moderna booster.
According to VAERS, a total 22,427 deaths followed administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 10,205 followed administration of the Moderna vaccines, and 2,801 followed administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine. In 249 cases, the name of the vaccine manufacturer was not specified in the report.
A total 4,175 of the reported deaths occurred on the same day as vaccination, 3,163 occurred the following day, 580 occurred within seven days, 1,621 occurred within ten to 14 days, and 2,799 occurred within 15 to 30 days.
According to Worldometers.info there had been 1,168,148 deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of July 1, 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 940,344 reports (up to June 23 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,513,755 individual-symptom events), 532,643 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,237,470 individual-symptom events), 97,722 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (443,011 individual-symptom events), 315 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,336 individual-symptom events), and 12,277 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (49,739 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 66,765. VAERS lists, as of June 23, 47,733 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,802 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,314 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 369 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of June 23 VAERS lists 11,456 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,299), seizure-like phenomena (648), and partial seizures (335) are listed separately.
There are 14,148 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,689 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,267), pulmonary thrombosis (1,179) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (992). There are 210,004 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 61,036 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive.
There are 9,816 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,767 reports of sleep disorders, 14,175 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,764 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,417 reports of blindness, and 3,549 reports of deafness. As of June 23 there were 25,143 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,609 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of June 23 along with 161 reports of stillbirth, 15,987 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,252 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,440 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,937 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,351 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of June 23, along with 7,041 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,372 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,063 reports of facial paresis. There are also 229 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 17,010 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to June 23, 2023. VAERS lists 88 reports of viral myocarditis, 24 cases of eosinophilic myocarditis, 13 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 11,267 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 741 cases of myopericarditis, 103 cases of pleuropericarditis, 62 cases of viral pericarditis, 37 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 8,904 reports of an anaphylactic reaction after Covid vaccination are listed up to June 23.
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.