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Comment by defrost | original | Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
[−]defrost · 2026-07-03 Fri 03:08 UTC · link
Anyone can report anything there and it is meaningless in any single specific case what the after affects of single vaccine applied to a specific person might be when extending to the population wide results of that vaccine.

There was a particular case in the UK where a vaccine was about to be administered, there was a fumble and a slight delay during which the patient went into cardiac arrest. Had that occurred after the vaccine was administered then that would go as a (possible) adverse reaction into VAERS and entered as such by the medical staff (who do know such a thing exists). As it happened before any vaccine was applied, it didn't.

VAERS isn't "dismissed" though - correctly used it is statistically analysed to investigate whether tens of thousands of reported events after a vaccine application differ in frequency than such events in the absence of a vaccine.

[−]qsera · 2026-07-03 Fri 06:08 UTC · link
>correctly used it is statistically analysed to investigate whether tens of thousands of reported events after a vaccine application differ in frequency

Yes, then that report is rejected because it used data from VAERS..

[−]RandomLensman · 2026-07-03 Fri 06:44 UTC · link
What's an example of a report rejected because of the use of VAERS data itself?