VAERS - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

VAERS was created in 1990. If you've had an adverse reaction to a vaccine, you can or your healthcare provider is required to report it to VAERS. The system was created to monitor, analyze and keep records of potential safety problems within the vaccine program.

"Although most common side effects of a vaccine are identified in studies before the vaccine is licensed, rare adverse events may not be detected in these studies. Therefore the U.S. vaccine safety system continuously monitors the adverse events (possible side effects) after a vaccine is licensed. "
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm298181.pdf

While VAERS is not used to solidify if vaccines caused said problem, by examining the frequency and consistency of results the FDA and CDC can eventually investigate if said event is vaccine induced.

"Objectives of VAERS
The primary objectives of VAERS are to:
- Detect new, unusual, or rare vaccine adverse events;
- Monitor increases in known adverse events;
- Identify potential patient risk factors for particular types of adverse events;
- Assess the safety of newly licensed vaccines;
- Determine and address possible reporting clusters (e.g., suspected localized [temporally or geographically] or product-/batch-/lot-specific adverse event reporting);
- Recognize persistent safe-use problems and administration errors;
- Provide a national safety monitoring system that extends to the entire general population for response to public health emergencies, such as a large-scale pandemic influenza vaccination program. "
https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html

Report an adverse event here:
https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

Search the VAERS data base:
With this search option, you are able to look at the reports of what adverse events per vaccine have been reported
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

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Does VAERS capture all adverse events?

 As stated above, VAERS was created to monitor, analyze and keep track of adverse events after vaccination. Considering the importance of monitoring a liability-free product, the Harvard Pilgrim Medical Group from Harvard Medical School was given a $1 million dollar grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to track the reporting on VAERS for 3 years and report the findings back to the CDC. 

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 The study revealed after compiling all of the events reported after for 3 years, that the vaccine injury rate was 1 in 10 children. After the study was concluded, the CDC was no longer responsive to their calls or emails. The Final Grant Report from the Harvard Pilgrim Medical Group is attached below.

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