VAERS lists nearly 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 1,563,951 adverse event reports after Covid vaccination, but 34,098 reports are described as ‘no adverse event’.
According to the latest published data, 35,347 deaths after Covid vaccination have been reported to VAERS.
The statistics are dated up to June 2, 2023, and include adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters.
Including adverse reactions reported after administration of the bivalent boosters, 7,164,176 individual-symptom events are listed (many reports include more than one symptom).
There are 78,693 reports described as vaccination failure and 71,856 listed as “drug ineffective”. There are 36,212 reports of an expired product being administered, 33,957 reports of a product storage error, 30,041 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 26,409 reports of off-label use, 13,644 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 11,237 reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 9,427 reports of an extra dose being administered, 8,309 reports of an incorrect product formulation being administered, and 7,530 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 32,981 reports of adverse reactions up to June 2, but 4,573 reports are listed as ‘no adverse event’.
There are a total 282 reports of death after booster vaccination, but in the ‘vaccine manufacturer category’ there are 178 reports listed after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 105 after administration of the Moderna vaccine (283 total).
There are 416 reports of permanent disability (256 after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 160 after administration of the Moderna vaccine). A total 132,243 individual-symptom events are listed.
In the ‘COVID19-2’ category, there are 5,513 cases of Covid-19 and 5,098 reports separately listed as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, 4,852 reports of a product storage error, 2,406 reports of an expired product being administered, 2,049 reports of the incorrect product formulation being administered, 1,489 reports of underdosing, 1,281 separate reports of an incorrect dose being administered, 793 reports of the wrong product being administered, 734 reports of an extra dose being administered, 429 reports of an inappropriate schedule of product administration, 389 reports of a product being administered to patient of an inappropriate age, 388 reports of a “poor quality product” being administered, and 313 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 17,524 reports of death after Covid vaccination from US states and territories or a location reported as unknown and 17,823 from foreign locations.
The 35,347 total includes the 178 reported deaths after administration of a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and 105 after administration of a Moderna booster.
According to VAERS, a total 22,331 deaths followed administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 10,166 followed administration of the Moderna vaccines, and 2,799 followed administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine. In 244 cases, the name of the vaccine manufacturer was not specified in the report.
A total 4,155 of the reported deaths occurred on the same day as vaccination, 3,148 occurred the following day, 579 occurred within seven days, 1,619 occurred within ten to 14 days, and 2,789 occurred within 15 to 30 days.
According to Worldometers.info there had been 1,166,662 deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of June 10, 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 936,762 reports (up to June 2 and in all locations) relate to adverse events after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines (4,497,328 individual-symptom events), 530,584 refer to the Moderna vaccines (2,229,408 individual-symptom events), 97,658 refer to the Janssen Biotech vaccine (442,508 individual-symptom events), 309 reports relate to the Novavax vaccine (1,305 individual-symptom events), and 12,103 relate to an unknown vaccine manufacturer (49,090 individual-symptom events).
The total number of reported adverse reactions resulting in permanent disability is put at 66,462. VAERS lists, as of June 2, 47,512 cases after administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, 15,729 after administration of the Moderna vaccines, 3,306 after administration of the Janssen Biotech vaccine, and 12 after administration of the Novavax vaccine. In 362 cases, the vaccine manufacturer was not specified.
As of June 2 VAERS lists 11,425 reports of seizures after Covid vaccination. Some other adverse reactions such as generalised tonic-clonic seizure (1,296), seizure-like phenomena (645), and partial seizures (322) are listed separately.
There are 14,010 reports of a pulmonary embolism and 10,653 reports of thrombosis, with separate listings for specific types of thrombosis, such as deep vein thrombosis (9,173), pulmonary thrombosis (1,176) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (988). There are 209,284 reports of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 and 60,675 separate reports of a SARS-CoV-2 test being positive.
There are 9,732 reports of a cerebrovascular accident, 12,718 reports of sleep disorders, 14,161 reports of herpes zoster (plus 1,760 other herpes zoster reports listed separately, including herpes zoster reactivation), 2,413 reports of blindness, and 3,537 reports of deafness. As of June 2 there were 25,088 reports of tinnitus.
There are also 3,604 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) listed on VAERS as of June 2 along with 161 reports of stillbirth, 15,949 reports of heavy menstrual bleeding, 4,248 reports of intermenstrual bleeding, 9,417 reports of irregular menstruation, and 4,921 reports of delayed menstruation.
There are 3,328 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome listed on VAERS as of June 2, along with 7,018 reports of Bell’s palsy, 9,349 reports categorised as facial paralysis, and 2,043 reports of facial paresis. There are also 226 cases of “facial asymmetry” listed on VAERS.
There are 16,941 reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) after Covid vaccination listed in the VAERS data up to June 2, 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 11,229 reports of pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart), 730 cases of myopericarditis, 103 cases of pleuropericarditis, 61 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 8,892 reports of an anaphylactic reaction after Covid vaccination are listed up to June 2.
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.