VAERS lists more than 1.54 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 1,576,797 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 35,091 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,646 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
The statistics are dated up to July 21, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters, 7,220,618 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,801 reports described as vaccination failure and 72,567 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 37,446 reports of an expired product being administered, 34,307 reports of a product storage error, 30,271 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,464 reports of off-label use, 13,651 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,338 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,460 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,389 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,586 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 36,230 reports of adverse reactions up to July 21, but 5,417 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
A total 140,406 individual-symptom events are listed.
There are a total 308 reports of death after booster vaccination, but in the ‘vaccine manufacturer category’ there are 193 reports listed after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 116 after administration of the Moderna vaccine (309 total).
There are 441 reports of permanent disability (268 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 173 after administration of the Moderna vaccine).
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,689 cases of Covid-19 and 5,243 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 5,187 reports of a product storage error, 3,360 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,097 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,636 reports of underdosing, 1,372 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 914 reports of the wrong product being administered, 766 reports of an extra dose being administered, 454 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 438 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, 397 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, and 327 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, from June 15, 2023, a new page displaying updated vaccination data would 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. The May 10 data can be seen on the Vaccination in States and jurisdictions page.
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 17,664 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 17,982 from foreign locations.
The 35,646 total includes the 193 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 116 after administration of a Moderna booster.
On VAERS 944,728 reports (up to July 21 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,534,717 individual-symptom events), 535,334 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,247,458 individual-symptom events), 97,789 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (443,559 individual-symptom events), 323 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,394 individual-symptom events), and 12,446 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (50,430 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 67,121. VAERS lists, as of July 21, 47,995 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,883 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,326 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 379 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of July 21 VAERS lists 11,504 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,304), seizure-like phenomena (648), and partial seizures (347) are listed separately.
There are 14,257 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,722 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,348), pulmonary thrombosis (1,181) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (999). There are 210,721 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 61,291 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive.
There are 9,899 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,829 reports of sleep disorders, 14,207 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,772 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,438 reports of blindness, and 3,624 reports of deafness. As of July 21 there were 25,279 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,615 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of July 21 along with 161 reports of stillbirth, 16,045 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,273 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,477 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,954 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,375 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of July 21, along with 7,060 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,409 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,080 reports of facial paresis. There are also 229 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 17,063 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to July 21, 2023. VAERS lists 88 reports of viral myocarditis, 26 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, six cases of chronic myocarditis, five reports of autoimmune 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 11,303 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 752 cases of myopericarditis, 103 cases of pleuropericarditis, 63 cases of viral pericarditis, 38 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 8,921 reports of an anaphylactic reaction after Covid vaccination are listed up to July 21.
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.