List of Canadian adverse reactions from official weekly report (December 24, 2021) – updated Feb 8, 2023
The point of this post is to illustrate that adverse events are occurring in Canada in response to the COVID-19 vaccines–some very serious.
This is a documented fact by the Canadian government–and this provides an additional reason why these products should not be coerced, besides the fact that informed consent is required by international and domestic laws which many Canadians in the private and public sectors insist on violating.
Canadian government web page: Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada
We update this page every Friday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. . . .
This report was last updated on December 24, 2021 with data up to and including December 17, 2021.
Data Notes #1 at the bottom of the page includes the following:
. . . These delays may be due to jurisdictions investigating and reviewing each adverse event prior to submitting the information to PHAC. There are also limitations to reporting practices such as underreporting ….
We don’t know how many adverse events there actually were. I can’t take these numbers as being close to the actual numbers.
Above Figure 4: Text Description, it states:
Please note that one report represents one person and may contain information on more than one adverse event.
Go to Figure 4, click “Show More Adverse Events.” The graph shows “Number [or Rate] of the most frequently reported adverse events by vaccine type up to and including December 17, 2021 (n=81,780)”
That means “81,780” events have been reported.
To see the actual numbers, use “Figure 4: Text Description” below the graph, which shows a table.
Only the most frequently reported events are reported in the graph and in this table. The numbers are shown for the three types of vaccines also: Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty, Moderna Spikevax and AstraZeneca Vaxzevria/COVISHIELD, but I am just using the total number of events for all three.
These most frequent events are (sorted in order from most to least frequent). If they’re not explained in brackets, I include a definition with a link in square brackets.
Note that this chart doesn’t indicate how severe the particular event types are, e.g. headaches (manufacturer studies do distinguish these).
I have highlighted the types of events that seem very significant to me in themselves, just as examples, but readers can’t tell what kind of intensity people endured with any of these:
Paraesthesia (tingling or prickling) 4,744
Vaccination site pain 4,263
Headache 3,586
Pruritus [itchy skin] 3,435
Dyspnoea (laboured breathing) 3,266
Fatigue 3,101
Urticaria (hives) 2,960
Chest pain 2,632
Vaccination site erythema (redness) 2,539
Vaccination site swelling 2,447
Nausea 2,441
Hypoaesthesia (numbness) 2,441
Fever ≥ 38°C 2,424
Dizziness 2,282
Erythema (redness) 1,938
Chest discomfort 1,791
Vomiting 1,768
Chills 1,714
Vaccination site warmth 1,711
Pain 1,534
Pain in extremity 1,482
Myocarditis/pericarditis [inflammation of the heart muscle/ inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart 1,516
Arthralgia (joint pain) 1,440
Adenopathy/lymphadenopathy [swelling of the glands / swelling of lymph nodes] 1,426
Rash 1,401
Throat tightness 1,398
Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) 1,377
Diarrhea 1,193
Asthenia (Weakness) 1,124
Myalgia [muscle pain] 1,110
Palpitations [feelings that your heart is skipping a beat, fluttering, pounding, or beating too hard or too fast] 1,084
Tachycardia [heart rate over 100 beats per minute] 1,038
Rash generalized (non-allergic) 970
Vaccination site pruritus (itching) 883
Peripheral swelling [swelling of your lower legs or hands] 841
Vaccination site cellulitis bacterial skin infection 813
Malaise (discomfort) 804
Cough 776
Lip swelling 768
Feeling hot 706
Anaphylaxis [serious, life-threatening allergic reaction 705
Vaccination site reaction 696
Bell’s Palsy [temporary facial paralysis which results from damage or trauma to one of the facial nerves] 694
Swelling face 689
Dermatitis allergic [skin irritation] 684
Abdominal pain 657
Swollen tongue 655
Hypersensitivity 628
Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) 619
Vaccination site rash 586
Reminder: the data on this government web page is for Canada only.
There are two separate sections below which show some of the more significant events: “Adverse events of special interest” and “Detailed information on safety signals, other safety updates and deaths.” Jumping to the information on Deaths at the bottom:
Up to and including December 17, 2021, a total of 254 reports with an outcome of death were reported following vaccination.
They proceed to categorize the reported deaths, dismiss and hedge as many as they can.
The general presentation of this page, especially at the top, is biased towards promoting the “vaccine” products and taking the numbers as if they are all legitimate and reflecting tiny percentages of the total doses.
“What you need to know” at the top of the page indicates there have been 6,829 “serious” (however they make that distinction) adverse events reported since Canadians began receiving these COVID shots and 30,900 total adverse events reported. 6,829 seems significant enough to me considering the “underreporting” admitted to.
The next section is Table 1: Adverse Events of Special Interest
Some of these are in the most frequent table also, but many of them are not. I’ve grouped the related ones together as in Table 1:
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome [your body’s immune system attacks your nerves … sensations can quickly spread, eventually paralyzing your whole body] 111
- Thrombocytopenia (low blood platelets) [Platelets (thrombocytes) are colorless blood cells that help blood clot] 70
- Cardiac arrest 39
- Cardiac failure 38
- Myocardial infarction (heart attack) 98
- Myocarditis1/Pericarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle and lining around the heart) 1,516
- Cerebral venous (sinus) thrombosis [“thrombosis occurs when blood clots block veins or arteries”] 16
- Cerebral thrombosis[cerebral is “relating to the brain“] 11
- Cutaneous vasculitis [“inflamed blood vessels in the skin”] 30
- Deep vein thrombosis 248
- Embolism [“obstruction in a blood vessel due to a blood clot or other foreign matter that gets stuck“] 15
- Haemorrhage (bleeding) 54
- Pulmonary embolism [“blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in your lungs“] 375
- Thrombosis (blood clot) 259
- Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (blood clot with low platelets) 89
- Acute kidney injury 46
- Glomerulonephritis (kidney inflammation) and nephrotic syndrome (kidney disorder) 11
- Liver injury 30
- Bell’s Palsy/facial paralysis 694
- Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) 179
- Transverse myelitis (inflammation of spinal cord) 40
For me, if 40 people had inflammation of the spinal cord due to an injection that should be enough to cause a scandal and shut the product down.
- Anaphylaxis 705
- COVID-19 170
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome 7
- Fetal growth restriction 5
- Spontaneous abortion 61
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome 5
- Chilblains [“painful inflammation of small blood vessels in your skin”] 19
- Erythema multiforme (immune skin reaction) 35
As mentioned above, the discussion of deaths [254 reports] is reserved for the end of the next section: “Detailed information on safety signals, other safety updates and deaths.”
I notice the footnote for the COVID-19 line in Table 1:
COVID-19 vaccines that are currently authorized in Canada cannot cause an infection because they do not contain the live virus. While they are all highly effective at preventing severe COVID-19 illness and death, no vaccine is 100% effective, and some COVID-19 cases will still occur. For vaccines that have a two-dose regimen, protection begins 14 days after the first dose, and 7 to 14 days after the second dose.
*”cannot cause an infection because …”? – I would question this statement. They can’t contribute to causing an infection despite all of the adverse events listed above?
*”…all highly effective at preventing severe…” – I would question this claim made about these products. Why should the government be promoting products instead of being objective?
*”For vaccines that have a two-dose regimen, protection begins 14 days after …” – this definition (original page gone: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html) has the potential for obscuring the numbers of events counted (as a result of the vaccines or COVID, e.g. deaths) for those considered vaccinated or unvaccinated.
The actual page I’m referring to is gone now. I link above to the web archive page from March 2021. Earlier versions on the web archive were modified. The statement I am referring to is on the March 21 archived version of this page which I linked to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210308164227/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html
Have You Been Fully Vaccinated?
People are considered fully vaccinated:
- 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or
- 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, like Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine
If it has been less than 2 weeks since your shot, or if you still need to get your second dose, you are NOT fully protected. Keep taking all prevention steps until you are fully vaccinated.
So would this definition distort the reports on adverse vaccine events (injuries) if people who just took one dose of the vaccine or who took the second dose during the last two weeks are not considered “fully vaccinated”? I’m sure it did.