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Be careful with VAERS.
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Conclusion
Alcohol-related causes kill an
estimated 95,000 people every year. More than
38,000 people died in auto accidents in 2020. Firearm-related incidents were responsible for
more than 39,000 fatalities in 2019. You may complain that I'm just counting the number of reported incidents and ignoring important details in one or more of these examples. That's absolutely correct, and it underscores my point about vaccine safety. Adding up adverse events and lighting our hair on fire is no way to assess the situation.
The rare adverse events linked to COVID-19 vaccination, taken in context, confirm that the shots don't pose a serious risk to the vast majority of people. Just as most of us can enjoy a few drinks with friends without fearing liver disease, so too can we get a vaccine without fretting about a vanishingly rare adverse reaction."
https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/08/23/covid-vaccines-kill-second-look-scary-vaers-reports-15747
"Because of its very nature, VAERS is prone to misunderstanding and misuse, and, unsurprisingly, VAERS has become a favorite tool of antivaxxers to claim that vaccines cause whatever AE on which they want to blame vaccines."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/du...ctors-fall-into-the-same-trap-as-antivaxxers/
"The
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS is being misused by anti-vaxxers to terrify the public. It’s a shame because VAERS plays a vital role in detecting important but rare reactions caused by vaccines. The weaponization of VAERS by anti-vaccine activists serves as a reminder that having access to more information does not always lead to better decisions. Information needs to be correctly interpreted to guide us in the right direction.
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It is easy for an anti-vaccine activist—someone who is categorically opposed to vaccines and who sees themselves as a hero saving humanity from a costly mistake—to simply cherry-pick scary VAERS reports and present them as proof that a vaccine is known to cause serious harm and death, a tactic we could call “VAERS scare.” VAERS, when utilized in the right way by the right people, can be a fantastic early warning system to detect vaccine adverse reactions, especially those that were too rare to be detected in the clinical trials that preceded approval of the vaccine.
It is a tool and like any tool it can unfortunately be misused."
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/dont-fall-vaers-scare-tactic
