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Why Canadian Death-Reporting Rates Lag VAERS and Peer Systems

Day 2 · 5:10:00 · Dr. Jessica Rose

  • 🇨🇦 Same products, yet Canadian serious-AE and death rates per dose sit far below U.S. VAERS and also below Australia, EudraVigilance and Yellow Card.
  • 🧱 Rose attributes part of the gap to Canada’s hybrid passive-active, heavily vetted systems that reject or stall citizen and clinician reports.
  • ⚖️ U.S. law mandates clinician reporting of suspected vaccine injuries (with penalties for false reports), which she says likely makes VAERS more complete—and more accurate.

Cross-country rate gaps and structural barriers in Canadian reporting.

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Transcript

Dr. Jessica Rose · 5:10:01

Um, there are far more Americans than Canadians, but I'm going to show you the rates. These are rates actually right here. So preliminary comparison, we can see Canada's low on the reporting scale. U.S. and Canadian citizens receive the same product, so why aren't the reporting rates the same? So let's focus on death reports. Again, using CAIFAS PHAC and HC's vigilance program, the death rate is low. So this is a rate, this isn't numbers, this is per 100,000 doses because I kept in line with PHAC's presentation. And it's very clear here that from these two adverse event data collection systems, actually it's one versus three for Canada, the Canadian rate is really low. And you might think, well, maybe VAERS is just high, but maybe, maybe it's overestimation, who knows.

Dr. Jessica Rose · 5:11:01

But it's interesting to note that where VAERS is passive, which means it's a volunteer reporting system and anybody can report, and they do. The Canadian systems are a hybrid of a passive and active system, which means that they're much more highly vetted and much more controlled on the front end and the back end. So Charles knows a lot about that, that process. Anybody who's tried to submit a report of adverse— an adverse event report in Canada can vouch for it being rejected or, you know, getting caught in the system. It's really interesting when you look across the other pharmacovigilance databases around the world, the DANE in Australia, EudraVigilance in the EU, and the Yellow Card system in the United Kingdom, that it still ranks the lowest. VAERS is still up there, so it's probably about double the average of the other three.

Dr. Jessica Rose · 5:12:07

But it begs a serious question as to why it's so much lower. And there are possible logical reasons for this, and like variations in how systems define and code and clean, or time window reports, underreporting differences could be there. But it's real interesting how in America It's actually mandated by law that if you are a physician or nurse practitioner and you even suspect that somebody has an injury due to a vaccine, you are required by law to report that to VAERS. They don't, but, you know, Rochelle Walensky, who was the director of the CDC at the time, is on record stating this. This is a fact. You can go to prison if you don't. You can also go to prison if you report a false adverse event to VAERS, by the way. They take— they, they make it look like they take this real seriously, and I'm just quoting what, you know, their rules are.

Dr. Jessica Rose · 5:13:07

So that could explain why the data collection rate for death in the United States is higher, but it also indicates that it's probably more accurate. So Here we go with another chart. I hope you guys aren't scared by graphs. These are very simple.