An investigation published in the British Medical Journal investigation alleged that the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has a “separate, back-end system.”
“Not only have staffing levels failed to keep pace with the unprecedented number of reports since the rollout of covid vaccines but there are signs that the system is overwhelmed, reports aren’t being followed up, and signals are being missed,” the report said.
The BMJ report found that “in stark contrast to the US government’s handling of adverse reaction reports on drugs and devices, the publicly accessible VAERS database on vaccines includes only initial reports, while case updates and corrections are kept on a separate, back end system.”
“Officials told The BMJ that this was to protect patient confidentiality—but this means that patients, doctors, and other public users of the database have access only to an incomplete and uncorrected version.”
Although VAERS claims to process reports quickly, the BMJ’s investigation revealed that “in the face of an unprecedented 1.7 million reports since the rollout of covid vaccines, VAERS’s staffing was likely not commensurate with the demands of reviewing the serious reports submitted, including reports of death.”
The report noted that while other countries have linked deaths to mRNA vaccination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which manages VAERS, “has not acknowledged a single death linked to mRNA vaccines.”
Rheumatologist and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Patrick Whelan said that he expected a prompt response from the CDC after he filed a VAERS report for a 7-year-old boy who passed away after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I assumed that, since it was a catastrophic event, the safety committee would want to hear about it right away,” he explained.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later sent an email to Whelan saying, “Generally speaking, staff might not reach out to providers unless they have specific questions about a case or a VAERS report.”
The report noted that there are two separate VAERS databases: “a public facing database, containing only initial reports; and a private, back end system containing all updates and corrections—such as a formal diagnosis, recovery, or death.”
FDA division director overseeing VAERS, Narayan Nair, stated, “There’s two parts to VAERS, the front end system and the back end . . . Anything derived from medical records by law” cannot be published ont he public system.
The CDC said the two separate databases are to protect patient confidentiality.
American Faith previously reported that researchers from Correlation Research in the Public Interest claim that COVID-19 vaccines might have contributed to an estimated 17 million deaths worldwide.
Drawing from all-cause mortality data across 17 countries, the study found a significant increase in deaths—particularly among the elderly—following the introduction of third and fourth booster doses.
Using a metric called the vaccine-dose fatality rate (vDFR), which measures presumed vaccine-induced deaths against doses given, the study concluded that there was an average of one death per 800 injections across the nations analyzed.
“This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed (0.213 ± 0.006) percent of the world population (1 death per 470 living persons, in less than three years), and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors asserted.
