Q&A: What Is VAERS and How Complete Is It?

Day 1 · 0:59:48 · Shawn Buckley · Ron Johnson

• ❓ Counsel interrupts so Johnson can define the CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System for viewers.
• 📉 Johnson reiterates the voluntary system’s severe under-reporting and contractor backlogs exceeding 2,700 reports a day.
• ⏱️ Later data loads raised the April 2021 death count from roughly 2,900 to nearly 7,000, still ~40% within 1–2 days.

Clarifying interruption on the passive US vaccine safety database.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:48

You said we could interrupt you. For those that don't know what VAERS is, would you maybe explain that term?

Ron Johnson · 0:59:54

That is the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. It's a voluntary system And I'll enter into the record here the, uh, the CDC-commissioned Harvard University Pilgrim Study. When they looked at VAERS and reported in 2010-2011, it only reports about 1% of adverse events. Now it's voluntary, but that's, that's what, what VAERS is. And again, we should get into a much more robust discussion of VAERS. By By the way, when I asked Francis Collins about 2,920 deaths, when you go back, they were being deluged with— they had to be freaking out. Their contractor— they hire a contractor to load them into the VAERS system, you know, they get them in, you know, self-reported, then they need a contract to do that. That contractor had to hire another 290 people, they're so backlogged. The contractor's worst case scenario prior, you know, as they got into this was 1,000 a day.

Ron Johnson · 1:01:01

In 2021, we averaged 2,700 adverse events. So again, they were so backlogged. When I talked to Francis Collins, because I'm watching this stuff, and we'll talk about why I was watching this, because I had conversations with Dr. Michael Eaton, we talk, need to talk about that. This is all 2,920 deaths. Now that we've actually got the VAERS system, we go back in history, by end of April there were actually 6,971 deaths. Not 2,900, 6,900 deaths already reported, just hadn't been loaded in the system, wasn't public yet, with 40% of those occurring on the day of vaccination or within 1 or 2 days. Okay, I, I know VAERS, they always say doesn't prove causation. I got that, but that's a correlation. I mean, 40% of deaths occurring on the day of vaccination, one, you know, I know if I had a loved one that went in perfectly healthy, got vaccinated, dropped dead, didn't wake up from their sleep, I know what I'd blame.

Ron Johnson · 1:02:03

But our federal health agencies didn't. That pretty well sums up the US federal health agency's ongoing attitude regarding their limited concern over COVID vaccine injury injuries and deaths. As a result of that indifference and lack of acknowledgment, those who have been vaccine injured are largely ignored and are unable to access effective treatment. You want to know my back— the reason I'm still doing this, the reason I ran for a third term, is because I got connected to the injection injured. No, nobody else was advocating for them. That's why I'm so appreciative. God bless you for advocating for them and letting them tell the stories. Here over the next few days.