VAERS lists more than 1.55 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 1,587,565 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 35,477 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,980 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
The statistics are dated up to August 18, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters 7,266,068 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,849 reports described as vaccination failure and 72,957 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 38,392 reports of an expired product being administered, 34,453 reports of a product storage error, 30,355 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,485 reports of off-label use, 13,667 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,416 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,505 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,430 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,592 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 37,204 reports of adverse reactions up to August 18, but 5,726 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
A total 143,153 individual-symptom events are listed.
There are a total 345 reports of death after booster vaccination, but in the ‘vaccine manufacturer category’ there are 198 reports listed after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 148 after administration of the Moderna vaccine (346 total).
There are 450 reports of permanent disability (272 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 178 after administration of the Moderna vaccine).
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,767 cases of Covid-19 and 5,289 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 5,316 reports of a product storage error, 3,619 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,107 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,672 reports of underdosing, 1,424 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 955 reports of the wrong product being administered, 793 reports of an extra dose being administered, 459 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 444 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, 411 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, and 334 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 that states the following: “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 17,948 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 18,032 from foreign locations.
The 35,980 total includes the 198 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 148 after administration of a Moderna booster.
According to VAERS, a total 22,696 deaths followed administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 10,420 followed administration of the Moderna vaccines, and 2,813 followed administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine. In 255 cases, the name of the vaccine manufacturer was not specified in the report.
A total 4,204 of the reported deaths occurred on the same day as vaccination, 3,174 occurred the following day, 582 occurred within seven days, 1,634 occurred within ten to 14 days, and 2,812 occurred within 15 to 30 days.
According to Worldometers.info there had been 1,173,141 deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of August 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 949,013 reports (up to August 18 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,553,985 individual-symptom events), 541,706 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,273,290 individual-symptom events), 97,922 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (444,171 individual-symptom events), 327 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,401 individual-symptom events), and 12,653 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (51,142 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 67,466. VAERS lists, as of August 18, 48,254 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,959 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,333 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 389 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of August 18 VAERS lists 11,534 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,308), seizure-like phenomena (650), and partial seizures (356) are listed separately.
There are 14,344 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,756 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,423), pulmonary thrombosis (1,182) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (1,004). There are 211,584 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 61,656 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive.
There are 9,978 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,880 reports of sleep disorders, 14,226 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,775 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,451 reports of blindness, and 3,640 reports of deafness. As of August 18 there were 25,350 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,618 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of August 18 along with 161 reports of stillbirth, 16,076 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,282 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,493 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,959 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,394 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of August 18, along with 7,072 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,434 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,103 reports of facial paresis. There are also 229 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 17,120 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to August 18, 2023. VAERS lists 89 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, six 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 11,346 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 762 cases of myopericarditis, 104 cases of pleuropericarditis, 63 cases of viral pericarditis, 40 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 8,940 reports of an anaphylactic reaction after Covid vaccination are listed up to August 18.
The CDC is no longer collecting adverse event reports on its v-safe app. It now directs those wishing to make a report about Covid vaccination to the VAERS website.
The CDC stated that it closed enrolment in v-safe for Covid-19 vaccines on May 19, 2023. V-safe, it noted, was developed specifically for Covid-19 vaccines.
“CDC is developing a new version of v-safe which will allow users to share their post-vaccination experiences with new vaccines,” the CDC added.
“CDC will continue to monitor the safety of Covid-19 vaccines through its other vaccine safety monitoring systems. V-safe users or others who get vaccinated can report any possible health problems or adverse events following vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).”
There is more detail about the VAERS 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.