Talking Point #04 - Are Vaccine Injuries Rare?
They say that the only thing rare about vaccine injury is that it is rarely talked about
In the United States, a rare disease is defined as a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people.
In 2016, VAERS received 59,117 reports of adverse events following vaccination, including 432 Deaths, 1,091 Permanent Disabilities, 4,132 Hospitalizations, and 10,284 Emergency Room Visits.
In 2021, VAERS received 748,864 reports of adverse events following vaccination, including 11,695 Deaths, 11,970 Permanent Disabilities, 46,701 Hospitalizations, and 89,885 Emergency Room Visits.
In 2023, VAERS received 106,089 reports of adverse events following vaccination, including 807 deaths, 2,368 Permanent Disabilities, 15,357 Hospitalizations, and 7,581 Emergency Room Visits.
So, is it Rare? Or only sometimes? Do your own search here - https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
A problem with VAERS is that it is a passive reporting system, relying on voluntary rather than mandatory reporting. As such, numerous reviews of VAERS have found that only a tiny fraction of vaccine adverse events are reported. Our doctor refused to report my daughter's reactions, and I ended up having to make four separate reports. While Doctors are mandated to report reactions, most only report serious reactions like anaphylaxis.
An HHS-funded review of vaccine adverse events over a three-year period by Harvard Medical School involving 715,00 patients found that “fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.” https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf
This graph from OpenVaers.com shows that the reporting rate skyrocketed when people were encouraged to report deaths after vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You may also notice the discrepancies between the numbers in that graph and the figures from the CDC, which I accessed directly through their official link. Why do these numbers differ? Is the CDC removing reports?
I’ve also been looking into how OpenVAERS.com sources its data. Can we trust OpenVAERS? What about the CDC? OpenVAERS recently published an article discussing potential data manipulation at the CDC, which raises further concerns. You can read their September 2023 article here: OpenVAERS FAQ. A trusted source has verified that Liz from OpenVAERS downloads data every Friday, which indicates that the CDC indeed reviews reports and sometimes removes them.
https://openvaers.com/faq/confirmation-comes-that-indeed-there-are-two-sets-of-books
As if data filtering weren't a significant enough concern, we must also confront the gaslighting by some doctors who fail to recognize vaccine-related injuries due to a lack of awareness. Medical training often emphasizes looking for familiar causes—when they hear hoofbeats, they’re taught to think of horses, not zebras. In our experience, our doctor outright refused to acknowledge any connection and dismissed the studies I presented.
Another critical issue is that many individuals may not realize their health problems are linked to vaccines, whether due to ignorance or delayed reactions—something our family experienced firsthand. If they don’t file a report about their reaction or injury, the unfortunate reality is that they never get counted.
Even though our daughter began experiencing small reactions right after her Hepatitis B shot at just one day old—such as apnea, mottled skin, lethargy, and feeding issues—it took 25 days before we rushed her to the emergency room. By then, she was still struggling with feeding, had a distended abdomen, had stopped pooping, and was suffering from severe lethargy. She ultimately spent a month in the hospital. I repeatedly told the doctors that all she had consumed was milk and vaccines. I later discovered that the vaccine she received had only been studied for reactions in infants for five days. This has left me wondering about the other babies who may have experienced delayed reactions like ours.
You can read more about Scarlet’s story here - www.ScarletsKids.org/about