Reply To: Covid 19 Vaccine
VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. Anyone can submit a report to VAERS, not just medical professionals. Consequently, VAERS can receive unverified information about adverse vaccine reactions.
If I had access to view the reports that are in the VAERS database, I wouldn’t know which are valid or duplicates, or which were caused by something other than the vaccine being blamed. The data is unverified, unresearched, often anecdotal – and made immediately available to the public. Anti-vaccination groups can skew the results with false reports.
I don’t put much faith in the accuracy of VAERS data.