Safety signals

This article, published by the Epoch Times (a publication rated “Unreliable, Problematic” by ad fontes media) is trying to claim that they uncovered hidden data identifying hundreds of safety signals to show that the mRNA COVID vaccines are unsafe.

First, they use VAERS data to make claims that the vaccine is dangerous. As they concede, VAERS data “passive reporting system that accepts reports from anybody,” and that many are “healthcare professionals, who were told during the pandemic they were required to lodge reports if post-vaccination issues cropped up.”

Anybody can make a report, regardless of their understanding of their situation and whether the event resulted from the vaccine or was just a coincidence. Likewise, healthcare professionals were told to report any severe adverse event, which by definition is any event that occurs after a vaccine regardless of causation. Because the authors conceded these points, their use of the data anyhow shows that they make their argument in bad faith.

To fuel the idea that this data was damning, they claim the CDC his the results of statistical analysis. However, all raw VAERS data is readily available on the VAERS website. That’s where they found it.