The first Covid-19 vaccine deaths

In the first month that the Covid-19 vaccines were introduced in the United States — December of 2020 — VAERS shows 271 reports of people who died within hours or days of getting a first dose.

Following are the accounts of their deaths in VAERS, many of them written by nursing home or hospice employees who were with them in their last days or hours.

These are the first reported deaths following vaccination. They are listed in the order that the individuals received the vaccine.

(Note: All names of people and places have been removed by the CDC/FDA.)

VAERS is an acronym for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which is run jointly by the CDC and FDA and serves as the nation’s early warning system for problems with vaccines.

Anyone can report an “adverse event” to VAERS, and doctors are required by law to report deaths and serious health events following vaccination.

However, there is no enforcement of this law for hospitals and doctors who do not file reports in VAERS.

An “adverse event” is defined as a possible side effect.

Death is a possible side effect of all vaccines.

A VAERS report does not prove that a vaccine caused a death, and the CDC and FDA have thus far not confirmed any deaths were caused by one of the Covid-19 vaccines.

The CDC cautions that VAERS reports are “unverified.”

However, the agency also has said it removes any reports that it believes are false, and studies show that about 40 percent of reports in VAERS are entered by health care providers — doctors, nurses, CNA’s, etc.

Knowingly filing a false report is a federal crime punishable by fines and imprisonment, the CDC warns on the VAERS website.

Because it takes time and effort to report to VAERS, and because there is no consequence for health care providers who don’t report, there is wide agreement that only a fraction of adverse events are reported.

But what fraction?

A study by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., which was commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services and conducted between 2007 and 2009, found that less than 1 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported to VAERS.

The study included 376,452 people who got a total of 1.4 million doses of 45 different vaccines.

“Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common but underreported,” the authors of the study concluded.

But given increasing public awareness of VAERS since 2021, some observers think that perhaps up to 10 or even 20 percent of serious adverse events, including deaths, are now being reported.

The CDC and FDA have not found any safety signals in VAERS with the exception of myocarditis in younger people.

Do you see any safety signals in the accounts above? Anything to indicate that the vaccines might be unsafe?

Do you see any patterns?

Are you surprised that early accounts like these of deaths following vaccination weren’t shared with the public at the time they were reported or in the months that followed?

Are you surprised that the Covid-19 vaccination campaign — the largest in U.S. history, logistically — was allowed to continue given accounts like these?