U.S. Government Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System: VAERS Data

1)

Query Criteria:

State / Territory: The United States/Territories/Unknown
Vaccine Products: COVID19 VACCINE (COVID19)
Group By: Symptoms
Show Totals: True
Show Zero Values: False

United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 – 02/05/2021, CDC WONDER On-line Database. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on Feb 17, 2021 11:18:32 AM

You can read the disclaimer/CAVEATS at the website and at the bottom of each report.

12,639 total events reported

Many reports include more than one symptom, so the total number of symptoms is higher than 12,639, greater than 100%.

Singling out the more frequent symptoms reported (in a very long list) in descending order:

HEADACHE 2,599
FATIGUE 1,903
PYREXIA 1,788
DIZZINESS 1,767
CHILLS 1,724
NAUSEA 1,664
PAIN 1,654
INJECTION SITE PAIN 1,163
PAIN IN EXTREMITY 1,049
DYSPNOEA 943
MYALGIA 836
SARS-COV-2 TEST POSITIVE 806
PARAESTHESIA 775
PRURITUS 693
RASH 645
ARTHRALGIA 627
VOMITING 587
HYPOAESTHESIA 578
COUGH 553
FLUSHING 552
MALAISE 526
URTICARIA 500
PALPITATIONS 494
DEATH 490
ASTHENIA 484
TACHYCARDIA 451
HEART RATE INCREASED 448
SARS-COV-2 TEST NEGATIVE 441
DIARRHOEA 439
FEELING ABNORMAL 432
HYPERHIDROSIS 428
CHEST DISCOMFORT 422
PARAESTHESIA ORAL 391
FEELING HOT 381
ERYTHEMA 381
INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA 336
BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASED 327
CHEST PAIN 315
THROAT TIGHTNESS 313
INJECTION SITE SWELLING 310
OROPHARYNGEAL PAIN 295
THROAT IRRITATION 295
TREMOR 292
LYMPHADENOPATHY 274
CONDITION AGGRAVATED 258
HYPOAESTHESIA ORAL 229
ANXIETY 222
COVID-19 221
BACK PAIN 219
BODY TEMPERATURE INCREASED 216
etc.

Image of the same search I repeated at 12:18pm (query includes all brands of COVID-19 vaccine).

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2)
Another query, specifically for the Moderna vaccine:

State / Territory: The United States/Territories/Unknown
Vaccine Products: COVID19 (COVID19 (MODERNA)) (1201)
Group By: Symptoms
Show Totals: True
Show Zero Values: False

United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 – 02/05/2021, CDC WONDER On-line Database. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on Feb 17, 2021 11:53:08 AM

Top 20 most frequent symptoms reported:

HEADACHE 715
PYREXIA 576
CHILLS 519
PAIN 478
NAUSEA 470
FATIGUE 465
DIZZINESS 454
INJECTION SITE PAIN 328
PAIN IN EXTREMITY 306
DYSPNOEA 276
DEATH 224
VOMITING 214
MYALGIA 208
PRURITUS 176
PARAESTHESIA 175
ARTHRALGIA 160
HYPOAESTHESIA 157
ASTHENIA 152
RASH 146
INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA 141
etc.

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3)
Another query, specifically for the Pfizer vaccine:

State / Territory: The United States/Territories/Unknown
Vaccine Products: COVID19 (COVID19 (PFIZER-BIONTECH)) (1200)
Group By: Symptoms
Show Totals: True
Show Zero Values: False

9,413 total events:

From the top 40 events:

HEADACHE 1,878
FATIGUE 1,437
DIZZINESS 1,312
PYREXIA 1,206
CHILLS 1,201
NAUSEA 1,192
PAIN 1,170
INJECTION SITE PAIN 830
PAIN IN EXTREMITY 742
SARS-COV-2 TEST POSITIVE 731
DYSPNOEA 664
MYALGIA 623
PARAESTHESIA 598
PRURITUS 516
RASH 496
ARTHRALGIA 461
FLUSHING 435
MALAISE 432
HYPOAESTHESIA 419
COUGH 418
PALPITATIONS 377
URTICARIA 375
VOMITING 370
HEART RATE INCREASED 354
SARS-COV-2 TEST NEGATIVE 347
FEELING ABNORMAL 345
TACHYCARDIA 332
ASTHENIA 331
HYPERHIDROSIS 327
DIARRHOEA 326
CHEST DISCOMFORT 317
FEELING HOT 303
PARAESTHESIA ORAL 303
ERYTHEMA 276 2.93%
DEATH 264
BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASED 253
OROPHARYNGEAL PAIN 245
THROAT TIGHTNESS 233
THROAT IRRITATION 229
CHEST PAIN 225

United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 – 02/05/2021, CDC WONDER On-line Database. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on Feb 17, 2021 11:59:41 AM

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Quoting their Caveats:

VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to VAERS. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.

The strengths of VAERS are that it is national in scope and can quickly provide an early warning of a safety problem with a vaccine. As part of CDC and FDA’s multi-system approach to post-licensure vaccine safety monitoring, VAERS is designed to rapidly detect unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse events, also known as “safety signals.” If a safety signal is found in VAERS, further studies can be done in safety systems such as the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) or the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project. These systems do not have the same limitations as VAERS, and can better assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine.

Key considerations and limitations of VAERS data:

• Vaccine providers are encouraged to report any clinically significant health problem following vaccination to VAERS, whether or not they believe the vaccine was the cause.
• Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.
• The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines.
• VAERS data are limited to vaccine adverse event reports received between 1990 and the most recent date for which data are available.
• VAERS data do not represent all known safety information for a vaccine and should be interpreted in the context of other scientific information.

Some items may have more than 1 occurrence in any single event report, such as Symptoms, Vaccine Products, Manufacturers, and Event Categories. If data are grouped by any of these items, then the number in the Events Reported column may exceed the total number of unique events. If percentages are shown, then the associated percentage of total unique event reports will exceed 100% in such cases. For example, the number of Symptoms mentioned is likely to exceed the number of events reported, because many reports include more than 1 Symptom. When more then 1 Symptom occurs in a single report, then the percentage of Symptoms to unique events is more than 100%. More information. . . .

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Some general info on COVID and the mRNA vaccines.

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