Here is my weekly update on Covid vaccine deaths and injuries in the US, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Data showed that between December 14, 2020, and October 15, 2021, a total of 818,044 adverse events following COVID vaccines were reported including a total of 17,128 reports of deaths — an increase of 362 over last week. There were 117,399 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time. This was an increase of 5,434 compared to last week.
“Data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 15, 2021, a total of 818,044 adverse events following COVID vaccines were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
The data included a total of 17,128 reports of deaths — an increase of 362 over the previous week, and a new report of a 12-year-old who died after getting the Pfizer vaccine.
There were 117,399 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 5,434 compared with the previous week.
Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, 612,125 adverse events, including 7,848 deaths and 50,225 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 15, 2021.
Of the 7,848 U.S. deaths reported as of Oct. 15, 11% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 28% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
In the U.S., 406.1 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of Oct. 15. This includes: 237 million doses of Pfizer, 154 million doses of Moderna and 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
The data come directly from reports submitted to VAERS, the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.
Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.
Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
This week’s U.S. data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:
- 21,921total adverse events, including 1,325 rated as serious and 25 reported deaths. Two of the 25 deaths were suicides.
The most recent death involves a 12-year-old girl (VAERS I.D. 1784945) who died from a respiratory tract hemorrhage 22 days after receiving her first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
Another recent death includes a 15-year-old male who died six days after receiving his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. According to his VAERS report (VAERS I.D. 1764974), the previously healthy teen complained of brief unilateral shoulder pain five days after receiving his COVID vaccine.
The next day he played with two friends at a community pond, swung on a rope swing, flipped into the air, and landed in the water feet first. He surfaced, laughed and told his friends “Wow, that hurt!” He then swam toward shore underwater, as was his usual routine, but did not re-emerge.
An autopsy showed no external indication of a head injury, but there was a small subgaleal hemorrhage — a rare, but lethal bleeding disorder — over the left occiput. In addition, the boy had a mildly elevated cardiac mass, increased left ventricular wall thickness and small foci of myocardial inflammation of the lateral wall of the left ventricle with myocyte necrosis consistent with myocardial infarction.
- 57 reportsof anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death — with 96% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
- 535 reportsof myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) with 527 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
- 119 reportsof blood-clotting disorders, with all cases attributed to Pfizer.
This week’s U.S. VAERS data, from Dec. 14, 2020, to Oct. 15, 2021, for all age groups combined, show:
- 19% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.
- 54% of those who died were male, 42% were female and the remaining death reports did not include gender of the deceased.
- The average ageof death was 72.7.
- Of the 3,014 cases of Bell’s Palsyreported, 51% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 41% to Moderna and 8% to J&J.
- 666 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, with 40% of cases attributed to Pfizer, 31% to Modernaand 28% to J&J.
- 2,010 reportsof anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.
- 10,290 reportsof blood clotting disorders. Of those, 4,488 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 3,709 reports to Moderna and 2,040 reports to J&J.
- 2,878 casesof myocarditis and pericarditis with 1,815 cases attributed to Pfizer, 939 cases to Moderna and 114 cases to J&J’s COVID vaccine.
Michigan woman died from blood clots after J&J vaccine, autopsy confirms
A 60-year-old woman died from blood clots after receiving J&J’s COVID vaccine, according to an autopsy report released Sept. 20 by Dr. Michael Caplan, a forensic pathologist at Michigan Medicine.
Sandra Jacobs “appears to have succumbed” to a “rare but nevertheless documented” complication associated with the viral vector vaccine — cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) — Caplan wrote in the summary. This condition brought about “hemorrhagic cerebral infarct,” or stroke caused by brain bleeding, and brain swelling, Caplan wrote.
The death certificate listed the cause of death as “complications of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis” and “recent administration” of a COVID vaccine as the contributing condition.
Caplan deemed the manner of death “natural,” but said it may also be considered a “therapeutic complication” since this is a known vaccine issue. Under “final diagnosis,” Caplan first listed the COVID vaccine.
Jacobs died 13 days after receiving the single-dose J&J vaccine at a CVS pharmacy on April 8 — just five days before federal health agencies temporarily paused the vaccine while they examined an unusual blood-clotting disorder.