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norstadt's avatar

In addition to the potential for false reports, VAERS may well be afflicted by under-reporting, which could be greater in 2021 than other years. The CDC are basically a bunch of veterinarians, and we are the herd.

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el gato malo's avatar

VAERS is 100% certain to be underreporting.

it's just a question of how much. 90% is not an unreasonable estimate. it's actually quite hard to report to VAERS and falsifying a report is a federal crime.

it's intended as a tripwire to show you there is a signal to look for, not a measure of how big the signal really is.

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Melisa Idelson's avatar

My neurologist mentioned on my last visit that he has been witnessing many neurological side effects post-vaccine: BellтАЩs palsy, stoke, TIAs, worsening ParkinsonтАЩs & MS symptoms, neuralgias and more. He said he has not reported them to VAERS because the process is so cumbersome and there are so many. He said it takes about an hour to input each report and he doesnтАЩt have the time.

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Undead Engineer's avatar

If memory serves, CDC has published numbers related to percentage of VAERS reports coming from medical personnel and itтАЩs approaching 70%. I believe they also scrub data over time and toss fictitious accounts.

I canтАЩt put my hands on it, but Harvard was commissioned to study the under reporting years ago and placed it at 99%.

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norstadt's avatar

Doctors see mass vaccination as a public good. They will not sully that pure ideological ointment with flies. Just recently, my primary doc convinced me, fool that I was, to get a tetanus booster. When I got home I read that the evidence supporting them is as thin as diarrhea (a common side effect). https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/do-adults-really-need-tetanus-booster-shots-2020051219786

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Susanna's avatar

Wow. Thanks for posting this

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Georgi Boorman's avatar

Speaking of signals, have any of you all read this?

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals?r=2k1wi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

I'm not a mathematician, but the gist seems to be they designed their formula for catching safety signals to...hide safety signals.

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el gato malo's avatar

it's a broken equation for PRR for sure. it will only catch single signals but will miss broad based ones (and mRNA vaxxed have extremely broad side effects that look like many other vaccines but worse)

it's particularly ill suited here.

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Georgi Boorman's avatar

The author thinks this is intentional. If so, these people need to be dragged before Congress, chewed out, and then fired. Ideally prosecuted, but that's just dreaming.

I wish he had used an analogy because then this might actually be something lay people could be made aware of. But it's too difficult to grasp as is.

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Brandon G's avatar

You have that recent PA on the High Wire who worked at the hospital for almost 18 years and had never heard about it.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

A couple of years ago, the CDC actually stated that VAERs was very much underreported for Gardisil.

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