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Rose: V-Safe FOIA Data and a ~26× Underreporting Factor

Day 2 · 4:50:47 · Dr. Jessica Rose

  • 📲 CDC’s v-safe app data, released only after ICAN FOIA, showed nearly 800,000 of 10 million users needed medical care; only ~30,500 linked to VAERS.
  • ✖️ Rose calculates an underreporting factor of about 26 and tells the room to multiply every VAERS figure she shows by at least that.
  • 🧮 MIT colleagues’ preprint found ~1% with prolonged disability or severe events, implying over 5 million debilitating injuries among 272 million U.S. dose recipients.

U.S. active-surveillance app data and what it implies for passive VAERS counts.

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Transcript

Dr. Jessica Rose · 4:50:47

So I want to start with some American data. This is the v-safe data. This was an app created by CDC, Centers for Disease Control in America, to enable, uh, the regular people of the world to download the app and report an adverse event if they succumb to one. Um, this had to be FOIA requested by the Informed Consent Action Network and Erin Ciri's legal team. So this data that became available was only made available because it was FOIA requested. It's very important that I make that point. It took a year and a half to complete that process, and I analyzed it about 2 weeks after the data came out, and you can see on the bottom bar that there were almost 800,000 reports of the 10 million that were reported that required medical care. Now that was the surface-level data that we had. Uh, another staggering thing about this data was that only 30,492 of those reports were linked to VAERS.

Dr. Jessica Rose · 4:51:51

Which is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which represents an underreporting factor of approximately 26. Senator Johnson mentioned that pharmacovigilance databases that are passive, which means it requires a volunteer submission, are highly underreported, and they are. So all the numbers I'm going to present to you today in reference to VAERS, you have to multiply them by at least 26. That's the point. Very recently, in August 2026, Bret Savlevy, a colleague of mine, and Nelson Lu— these are MIT researchers— submitted a preprint on the subject matter of this data, and they found the following: there were almost 2% of the 10 million reports that reported over 3 months after their last shot that their health condition was worsening. And half of those, which is about 1%, a lot of people, 100,000, explicitly reported prolonged disability, hospitalization, or severe and debilitating adverse events.

Dr. Jessica Rose · 4:52:54

Now, if you consider the fact that, uh, 272 million people in the United States received at least one dose, by extension, you can make a prediction that over 5 million people in America alone might be suffering with debilitating injuries. So this is not a small deal.