VAERS is a horror show of a database. It cannot be used the way the author of this article is attempting to use it. As a surveillance system, it's poorly designed, and CDC should do better.
That said, FDA had an obligation to investigate these reports and do a proper assessment of the safety signal that was clearly evident. FDA had an obligation not to just write it off as reporting bias, because they well understood that VAERS has always been historically subject to that. So you ignore any attempt to get rates out of it and focus on the raw numbers of reports themselves. They had tens of thousands of reports of serious adverse events. That's not seen with any other vaccine on the market.
And yet, there was no investigation because the last thing they wanted was proof the vaccines were unsafe, so no study was done. No effort was made to look into it. They covered it up.
VAERS is a horror show of a database. It cannot be used the way the author of this article is attempting to use it. As a surveillance system, it's poorly designed, and CDC should do better.
That said, FDA had an obligation to investigate these reports and do a proper assessment of the safety signal that was clearly evident. FDA had an obligation not to just write it off as reporting bias, because they well understood that VAERS has always been historically subject to that. So you ignore any attempt to get rates out of it and focus on the raw numbers of reports themselves. They had tens of thousands of reports of serious adverse events. That's not seen with any other vaccine on the market.
And yet, there was no investigation because the last thing they wanted was proof the vaccines were unsafe, so no study was done. No effort was made to look into it. They covered it up.