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"That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed, at any rate, prompting outraged denials from the old-guard media and those self-appointed “fact-checkers” who sprung up out of nowhere a few years back, claiming to be the final arbiters of truth.
Carlson was referring to the unusually large number of reports of people who’ve died after getting vaccinated for COVID-19 piling up in the CDC’s official database, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
And, if nothing else, we learned that those who control which facts and figures become objects of national obsession — those who most of us will never hear a word about — are hell-bent on keeping the VAERS data firmly in the latter camp.
As of May 28, VAERS contains 4,561 reports of post-Covid jab fatalities.
That’s liable to not sound like very much if, like virtually everyone, you’ve never heard of VAERS.
After all, though most folks have been mesmerized into pretending otherwise about COVID-19 itself, we all know dying with isn’t really the same thing as dying from.
Nor is dying after.
So, given that around 8,000 Americans ordinarily perish in a single day, what’s so odd about finding 4,500 post-vaccination fatalities in five months during which time half the country got jabbed?
The attempts to portray Carlson as a malignant demagogue fomenting unjustified panic about a perfectly harmless but absolutely essential drug all leaned heavily on that point.
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake was typical:
The fact is that lots of people have received the vaccine — so many that plenty were going to die of something in the months that followed.
But the pack of media scoundrels desperately yelling, “Nothing to see here!” are the ones playing fast and loose with the facts.
Indeed, they’ve resorted to so much deception to ensure that Carlson’s report gives birth to no wider discussion that their evident zeal to hide this year’s extraordinary increase in adverse event reports
— for which the Covid vaccines are entirely responsible —
raises even more disturbing questions than the data itself, as troubling as it is.
VAERS is what’s called a passive surveillance system, meaning that instead of actively searching for potential side-effects, it relies entirely on voluntary reporting.
And, though neither Blake nor any of the others determined to stifle discussion mention it, Carlson explicitly noted that it’s been established for over a decade that VAERS’ detection rate is abysmal.
A report submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2010 concluded that, quote,
“Fewer than one percent of vaccine adverse events are reported by the VAER System.”
The report mentioned was the product of a million-dollar grant the Department of Health and Human Services gave some Harvard Medical School researchers to develop a computerized “active” system that would perform better than VAERS and then run randomized trials evaluating both.
The researchers don’t say how they arrived at that dismal 1% detection rate.
But the data they do present paints an equally bleak picture.
From June 2006 through October 2009, they exhaustively searched for potential side effects among the 715,000 patients of Atrius Health, “a large multi-specialty group practice with over 35 facilities.”
Every patient receiving a vaccine was automatically identified, and for the next 30 days, their health care diagnostic codes, laboratory tests, and medication prescriptions were evaluated for values suggestive of an adverse vaccine event. [AHRQ.Gov]
Around half wound up getting some type of vaccine, and 35,570 potential adverse side effects were identified.
Yet for the same period, VAERS recorded only around 73,000 within 30 days of vaccination in the entire country.
... in a population 420 times as large, VAERS only managed to capture fewer than twice as many potential vaccine adverse events (as the 715,000 patients of Atrius Health)
No one should be surprised by the Harvard team’s findings.
A system of voluntary reporting about which hardly anyone even knows is, after all, bound to miss virtually everything.
... A 2013 study by researchers from the CDC itself found that almost 30% of health care professionals had never heard of it.
Among those who’d come across a potential vaccine side effect and had, a jarring 83% still failed to file any report.
Yet, according to the CDC, VAERS is supposed to be “the nation’s frontline system for monitoring vaccine safety,” raising the obvious question:
Why on earth is the CDC still using a passive surveillance system proven completely worthless over a decade ago
that anyone could see was bound to massively undercount potential side effects,
as nothing has been done to ensure public awareness of such a reporting system in the first place?
... the only answer seems to be that, for whatever dark reason, that’s exactly what the CDC wants.
... they’ve made no effort to publicize VAERS and increase the dismal reporting rate among medical professionals, nor replaced it with something better.
Not only was the Harvard team’s automated system never adopted.
They weren’t even able to run the clinical trials comparing its effectiveness to VAERS’ because —
after spending three years and a million taxpayer dollars — they found themselves ghosted by the CDC: Unfortunately, there was never an opportunity to perform system performance assessments because the necessary CDC contacts were no longer available and the CDC consultants responsible for receiving data were no longer responsive to our multiple requests to proceed with testing and evaluation. [AHRQ.Gov]
Because only six months of safety data is required for FDA approval, a “frontline system” for detecting potential side effects after vaccines go on the market that actually works is important.
... If you’re surprised to hear about that lack of FDA approval, don’t blame yourself.
The fact that the vaccine has only received what’s called an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) — like so much else about COVID-19 — is being systematically suppressed.
Anthony Fauci even lied on camera (yet again) when asked, “Which of the COVID-19 vaccines have been officially approved by the FDA?”
“Three of them,” replied Fauci, naming the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines that, in reality, only have EUAs.
... you can understand why Fauci thought he could get away with lying given how rarely the media mentions any COVID-19 vaccine regulatory deficiencies.
... A biologics license application required for FDA approval requires six months of data.
But for COVID-19, the EUA requirement was cut down to only two months.
... CNBC headlined one of the rare media stories mentioning that you can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects.
The government likely won’t compensate you for damages either.
... The manufacturers and federal government have so much confidence in that truncated two months of safety testing
that the former were granted the same immunity from liability the FDA already has.
... making the notion of informed consent the cruelest of jokes.
Making matters worse, when a vaccine goes on the market with only an EUA, the FDA is required to ensure that anyone taking it knows it’s only been authorized for emergency use, and apprise them of any known risks, as well as to the extent to which risks are unknown.
... it’s a bit tough to see how that duty could have possibly been discharged when hardly anyone even knows that the Covid vaccines were only granted an EUA.
Or that the reason was the long-term safety testing required for FDA approval wasn’t done.
Or that the manufacturers are immune from liability should that or any other deficiency prove tragic.
Or, for that matter — as another person the media has tried to silence, Alex Berenson, noted —
that in the five months since the first vaccine hit the market,
there have already been almost as many reports of post-Covid vaccine deaths than for every other vaccine combined in the database’s entire 30-year history.
... all those big media outlets and “fact-checkers” claiming it’s irresponsible to bring a mere 4,000 deaths to the public’s attention aren’t just ignoring VAERS’ abysmal detection rate.
... It’s the jaw-dropping increase in COVID-vaccine reports, not the absolute number, that Tucker Carlson, Alex Berenson, and others are getting hammered for trying to alert you about.
... what the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, PolitiFact, and a host of less influential outlets are trying to tell you isn’t worth noticing.
... without mentioning that there have already been more submitted in just five months than in the previous 27 years for all other vaccines combined.
And it’s not because more Covid vaccines were administered than other vaccines. More were jabbed for the flu in just the last season alone.
And that’s not even considering all the other 55 available vaccines.
... Something extraordinary is occurring.
Anyone denying it would look like an idiot.
So they lie about what the issue is instead, then lie some more to tear down the strawman they’ve built.
Another tactic they use is to vilify anyone trying to make the real cause of concern public with terms like “far-right extremist.”
... VAERS’ apparently intentional lousy detection rate means we’ve no clue what the real number of adverse events even is.
We won’t have answers until someone takes the time to find them.
And the fact that no one in charge seems to give a damn and, indeed,
that they sit back in silence as the world’s most influential news outlets flagrantly lie in a desperate effort to stop the public from even learning there’s anything that needs explaining is,
as we’ll see, merely the first of many signs that a rushed-to-market deadly vaccine, as bad as that would be, is the least of our worries."
"The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a database managed by the CDC that collects reports of health problems experienced after taking a vaccine.
... You would hope that if a new vaccine wound up getting more death reports in five months than all the others combined over the entire previous 28 years, that might warrant some attention.
... An army of journalists and self-proclaimed fact-checkers stand ready to besiege anyone who dares to report on this astonishing data. Not only is there nothing to see, suggesting otherwise makes you a conspiracy theorist or a far-right extremist, according to our betters in the fake news media.
VAERS relies entirely on voluntary reporting, but hardly anyone knows it exists, so it is bound to capture a mere fraction of actual side effects.
... Tucker Carlson ... conclusion that nobody actually knows the true number of people who’ve died after Covid vaccination was flippantly assailed by the odious propagandists at Media Matters.
They made an irrelevant rebuttal which involved a blatant lie:
But, that data does exist. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention oversees VAERS, it also runs the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). [Media Matters]
But of course the data exists somewhere.
Carlson’s point was that no one has collected and analyzed it to determine the true number of post-COVID-vaccine deaths.
... it doesn’t exist at VSD, which contains information from only nine healthcare facilities scattered across the US — not the entire country.
And its purpose is to “conduct studies based on questions or concerns already raised by the medical literature and reports to VAERS,” not to be a frontline detection system in its own right.
So, someone would have to actively sift through the VSD data to know the number of post-vaccination deaths experienced at just those nine facilities.
And there’s zero indication anyone has done even that.
Not only does nobody know the real number of Americans who’ve died after taking a Covid vaccine, no one in charge seems to even care.
... The media excoriated people for mentioning a “mere” 4,000 death reports in five months,
without mentioning that before the Covid vaccines came along, VAERS had only exceeded 200 death reports in an entire year once in its three-decade history.
... Carlson made it clear his main point wasn’t even about VAERS.
His subject was the bullying and censorship that’s getting heaped on “anyone who dares to question vaccines,” and he spent more time chronicling disturbing cases than he did on VAERS.
... As Carlson noted, the data piling up in VAERS doesn’t necessarily tell us anything about the Covid vaccines.
Maybe, the relentless publicity has massively increased the likelihood that potential side effects will get reported.
But without looking into the matter, it’s just as likely that reporting has been suppressed by the vilification of anyone who so much as raises the possibility that getting jabbed is anything less than perfectly harmless.
... Whatever the case may be, the volume of death reports flooding VAERS is extraordinary.
The effort to destroy anyone saying otherwise makes a full investigation much less likely and could portend something very dark indeed.
We’ve barely plumbed the depths of the VAERS cover-up.
The narrative gatekeepers are also hiding a significant source of undercounting that’s likely occurring precisely because of the unprecedented volume of reports coming in.
Jack Brewster of Forbes, for example, both revealed and justified the utter contempt he has for his readers’ intelligence with this risible nonsense:
VAERS is designed to allow anyone to report an event, meaning the data is unverified… [Forbes]
... the fact that anyone can submit a report obviously doesn’t mean that they’re being entered into the database without any verification.
... We’ve known from the beginning that the virus’s official death toll deliberately conflates dying with Covid and dying from Covid.
In fact, a number of factors guarantee an unknown but enormous number of bogus entries in the official death toll.
The media is suggesting without evidence that the same holds for the post-Covid vaccine fatality reports flooding VAERS ...
An AP effort to nip any public discussion in the bud contained this flagrantly deceptive remark by Dr. Sean O’Leary, “vice-chair of the committee on infectious diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics and professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado”:
For example, if you get a vaccine and then you get struck by lightning, you can report that to VAERS. [AP]
... But Dr. O’Leary’s implied suggestion that not only are such reports routinely entered,
but that the reports of post-COVID-jab fatalities include so many they can safely be ignored,
is such a low-down piece of deception that he ought to be stripped of his medical license.
(CDC) appears to be innocent of anything sleazy since they explicitly advise anyone submitting a (VAERS) report that:
You will be contacted by VAERS if follow-up information (i.e., medical records or other medical documentation) is needed. [Dept. of Health and Human Services]
That sentence would clearly seem to indicate that there’s some kind of verification.
But it’s also the 11th response on a page listing 17 questions, each of which has to be clicked to view its answer.
And the question itself doesn’t mention verification.
Moreover, after spending a couple hours trying to find out about verification, that one not-easy-to-find nor terribly informative sentence is the only thing that turned up.
So it appears that those in charge at the CDC must be so irredeemably corrupt as to actually want a reporting system in place that barely counts a fraction of potential vaccine side effects.
It also looks like they’re not too keen on anyone knowing what happens to VAERS reports between submission and publication.
Nor does the CDC appear to provide any information on the related question of lag time, leading most people to assume that what they’re seeing at any given time represents all there currently is.
... There are a lot of reasons to think that side effects are at least so far wildly underreported.
For example, there are as many reports of life-threatening illnesses as there are deaths.
In fact, the COVID-19 vaccines have caused an unprecedented number of reports of any kind.
And, as Alex Berenson noted, it’s likely that any system that’s suddenly showing more reports in a single week than it used to record in an entire year is being overwhelmed enough to have a sizable backlog.
Berenson also reported on one woman who submitted a VAERS report in January but only received a request for more information in late April.
In the interim, a jaw-dropping quarter million reports were added, suggesting that the backlog might be enormous.
... though the CDC is allowing everyone to think that the VAERS data is up-to-date without actually saying so,
there’s a lot of interconnecting evidence that a lot more reports must have come in than those we’re currently being allowed to see.
... When you step back to look at the whole picture, the obfuscation and contempt for evidence surrounding VAERS fits into the same pattern of deliberate deception that has been the norm since Covid first emerged a year and a half ago."
