Reporting and Searching Vaccine Reactions in VAERS (09/10/24, video 49:13)

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Dawn Richardson of National Vaccine Information Center explains the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), what it’s for, how to submit reports, and how to search it. Topics include:

• How and why VAERS was established

• The process of submitting an adverse reaction

• Ways to search — by injury, injection, symptom, age, severity, location or otherwise

• Liability, vaccine safety and pharmaceutical product marketing

Dawn also summarizes recent public health news.

Resources (linked in the show notes)

• Will a Fentanyl Vaccine Turn the Tide in the War Against Opioids?

• South Carolina Drug Investigation Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill Millions, FBI Says

• Staying Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC

• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

• CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 | FDA

• About the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)

• About the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) Project

• About V-safe | CDC

• V-Safe Data - ICAN - Informed Consent Action Network

• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) | HHS

• VAERS - Report an Adverse Event

• CDC | YouTube

• NVIC Advocacy Portal

• How to Search VAERS Data Using MedAlerts

We especially appreciated the detailed walk-through explaining:

• How to submit reports using HHS’s online or editable PDF methods (vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html)

• How to search VAERS data using MedAlerts tool (medalerts.org/index.php), which is better than HHS’s “Wonder” tool (wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html). Another terrific tool is at OpenVAERS (openvaers.com).

For more about VAERS and related databases, see “Where’s VAERS” at eolson47.substack.com/p/wheres-vaers?ut…