The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), is the principal government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. New data or this week, shows a total of 1,371,474 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between December 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022. This includes a total of 29,981 reports of deaths, an increase of 191 over last week, and 249,116 serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period, an increase of 1,430 compared last week. Of the 29,981 reported deaths, 19,348 cases are attributed to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, 7,981 cases to Moderna, 2,603 cases to Johnson & Johnson (J&J). No case have yet been reported for Novavax.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data showing a total of 1,371,474 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). That’s an increase of 13,534 adverse events over the previous week.
VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.
The data included a total of 29,981 reports of deaths — an increase of 191 over the previous week — and 249,116 serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 1,430 compared with the previous week.
Of the 29,981 reported deaths, 19,348 cases are attributed to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, 7,981 cases to Moderna, 2,603 cases to Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and no cases yet reported for Novavax.
Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, 851,372 adverse events, including 13,894 deaths and 87,050 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022.
Foreign reports are reports foreign subsidiaries send to U.S. vaccine manufacturers. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, if a manufacturer is notified of a foreign case report that describes an event that is both serious and does not appear on the product’s labeling, the manufacturer is required to submit the report to VAERS.
Of the 13,894 U.S. deaths reported as of July 29, 7% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 54% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
In the U.S., 603 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered as of July 27, including 357 million doses of Pfizer, 227 million doses of Moderna and 19 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
Every Friday, VAERS publishes vaccine injury reports received as of a specified 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.
U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds show:
- 2,622 adverse events, including 81 cases rated as seriousand 3 reported deaths.
- 4 reportsof myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of “myocarditis,” which excludes cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the emergency department.
- 15 reportsof blood clotting disorders.
- 25 reportsof seizures.
U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 5- to 11-year-olds show:
- 12,379 adverse events, including 315 rated as seriousand 9 reported deaths.
- 24 reportsof myocarditis and pericarditis.
- 47 reportsof blood clotting disorders.
- 102 reportsof seizures.
U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 12- to 17-year-olds show:
- 32,910 adverse events, including 1,850 rated as seriousand 45 reported deaths.
The most recent report of a death in the 12- to 17-year-old age group was that of a 17-year-old male from Pennsylvania (VAERS I.D. 2396146) who died from lymphocytic myocarditis approximately five months after receiving his first dose of Pfizer. The patient had no relevant medical history, according to the report.
The report states the “patient was just hanging with buddies at a soccer game, patient just collapsed, just died right there, EMT rushed patient to hospital and tried 42 minutes of CPR — nothing happened. Once autopsy was done, the patient definitely had myocarditis, and think it was lymphocytic myocarditis.”
The patient did not receive any other vaccine within four weeks of his first dose of Pfizer. The batch and lot number have been requested and “will be submitted if and when received.” However, this information will not be available to the public.
According to the CDC, “VAERS data available to the public include only the initial report data to VAERS. Updated data which contains data from medical records and corrections reported during follow up are used by the government for analysis. However, for numerous reasons including data consistency, these amended data are not available to the public.”
- 63 reportsof anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death — with 97% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
- 658 reportsof myocarditis and pericarditis with 645 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
- 165 reportsof blood clotting disorders with all cases attributed to Pfizer.
- 20 casesof postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) with all cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for all age groups combined, show:
- 20% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.
- 55% of those who died were male, 41% were female and the remaining death reports did not include the gender of the deceased.
- The average ageof death was 73.
- As of July 29, 5,684 pregnant womenreported adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines, including 1,777 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.
- Of the 3,629 cases of Bell’s Palsyreported, 51% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 40% to Moderna and 8% to J&J.
- 907 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, with 42% of cases attributed to Pfizer, 30% to Modernaand 27% to J&J.
- 2,298 reportsof anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.
- 1,750 reportsof myocardial infarction.
- 14,303 reportsof blood-clotting disorders in the U.S. Of those, 6,401 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 5,145 reports to Moderna and 2,722 reports to J&J.
- 4,287 casesof myocarditis and pericarditis with 2,627 cases attributed to Pfizer, 1,456 cases to Moderna and 188 cases to J&J.
- 14 casesof Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with 8 cases attributed to Pfizer, 5 cases to Moderna and 1 case to J&J.
- 272 casesof POTS with 167 cases attributed to Pfizer, 87 cases to Moderna and 17 cases to J&J.”