I was told directly not to report my flu shot adverse events (body aches, fatigue, inability to work for a couple of days) to VAERS once. Not by anyone at VAERS, just someone administering the shots, but there you are. The culture already existed to downplay vaccine AEs & no doubt contributed to underreporting. (Even if I understand why …
I was told directly not to report my flu shot adverse events (body aches, fatigue, inability to work for a couple of days) to VAERS once. Not by anyone at VAERS, just someone administering the shots, but there you are. The culture already existed to downplay vaccine AEs & no doubt contributed to underreporting. (Even if I understand why & flu shots are generally well-tolerated, it was still way more severe & systemic than anything that happened to me after a flu shot before.)
Parents of children injured by vaccines have known about the underreporting for quite some time. The manta of "vaccines are safe" means that few doctors question them.
Most doctors seem uninterested in whether the decades-old practices and myths they learned by rote in medical school even work. To accord to the text is an end in of itself.
I have learned over the decades that most medical doctors are not the bastion of critical thinking I had hoped. Exceptions exist, of course! But it's overall very disappointing
Yes. The response I got the second time--I reported my first AE from the prior year to VAERS on my own without consulting anyone, and am glad I did--was "that's not an AE, it happens so often, take an NSAID and wait it out". And here I was taking the attitude toward AEs I'd been told to have for reporting drug AEs--always report even if it's a known side effect!
Synopsis of our level of medical system dysfunction going into the pandemic.
I was told directly not to report my flu shot adverse events (body aches, fatigue, inability to work for a couple of days) to VAERS once. Not by anyone at VAERS, just someone administering the shots, but there you are. The culture already existed to downplay vaccine AEs & no doubt contributed to underreporting. (Even if I understand why & flu shots are generally well-tolerated, it was still way more severe & systemic than anything that happened to me after a flu shot before.)
Parents of children injured by vaccines have known about the underreporting for quite some time. The manta of "vaccines are safe" means that few doctors question them.
Most doctors seem uninterested in whether the decades-old practices and myths they learned by rote in medical school even work. To accord to the text is an end in of itself.
I have learned over the decades that most medical doctors are not the bastion of critical thinking I had hoped. Exceptions exist, of course! But it's overall very disappointing
Yes. The response I got the second time--I reported my first AE from the prior year to VAERS on my own without consulting anyone, and am glad I did--was "that's not an AE, it happens so often, take an NSAID and wait it out". And here I was taking the attitude toward AEs I'd been told to have for reporting drug AEs--always report even if it's a known side effect!
Synopsis of our level of medical system dysfunction going into the pandemic.
I'm one of those parents and am very alarmed by what's going on.