Most people don’t report vaccine adverse events because they don’t know WHAT is an adverse event. They also don’t know they CAN report an adverse event.

How can we claim vaccines are safe if we aren’t even collecting the data that *could* possibly prove that hypothesis wrong?

People are told a fussy, crying baby after shots is normal. That redness and swelling, even the high-pitched crying is normal. They’ll say give some Tylenol. And that these are signs the vaccines are working.

Parents are told that their babies just suddenly became allergic to their mother’s breastmilk. Or maybe some new foods in YOUR diet.

They’ll say some babies just get eczema, hives, or sleep a lot after shots. That diarrhea is only worrisome if it has blood in it. Arching, silent reflux, it’s all just normal baby stuff.

Failure to thrive, lack of weight gain, lack of growth, loss of cooing or words. Joint pain, muscle pain, suddenly not wanting to bear weight. Purple crying, apnea, BRUE, seizures, SIDS. Ear infections, pneumonia, bronchitis. RSV after a Dtap? Heard that one too many times.

Do they help you? When you call? What do they tell you to do??

In 2011, HHS funded a research team that “to improve the quality of vaccination programs by improving the quality of physician adverse vaccine event detection and reporting to the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).”

However, what they found was:

“Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. Low reporting rates preclude or slow the identification of “problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger public health.”

Lazarus Report: https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf

Also here: Lazarus Report

The Lazarus Report is not the only research to find that vaccine adverse events are extremely underreported:

A 2013 survey titled “Who is unlikely to report adverse events after vaccinations to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)? found that while 37% of healthcare providers had identified at least one adverse event following immunization, “only 17% of them had ever reported to VAERS.”

Astonishingly, 29% of healthcare providers had NEVER even heard of VAERS.

REPORT A VACCINE REACTION: VAERS.HHS.GOV