The Problem With the Hidden V-Safe Data Narrative
Anti-Vaccine Politician Ron Johnson holds another Senate hearing about vaccines.
Can you see the problem with the hidden v-safe data narrative that is being laundered across anti-vaccine social media accounts and their websites?
Yeah, it’s that ‘the agency’ did tell us what it found!
The Problem With the Hidden V-Safe Data Narrative
In fact, we got regular updates about V-Safe data during the COVID pandemic.
“V-safe has been particularly effective in characterizing the basic safety of COVID-19 vaccines during early vaccine introduction and following new authorizations and recommendations.”
Update: v-safe after vaccination health checker (ACIP 2023)
Updates that included information on safety studies that used V-Safe data.
V-Safe safety studies that helped determine that:
there were no obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
the frequency of reported reactions was generally consistent with results observed in clinical trials.
that fewer than 1% of adolescents aged 12–17 years required medical care in the week after receipt of either dose; and 56 adolescents (0.04%) were hospitalized.
that the simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and seasonal influenza vaccines was associated with significant increases in reports of systemic reactions during days 0 to 7 following vaccination
So those of us who were watching the frequent ACIP meetings and following COVID vaccine safety studies were well aware of the V-Safe data!
Which makes you wonder why Sen. Ron Johnson thinks there was some conspiracy here…
Well, maybe it’s not too surprising, after all Sen Ron Johnson also pushed propaganda that young athletes were dying after their COVID vaccines.
And even when ‘needed medical care’ or ‘hospitalization’ was reported to V-Safe, guess what?
It didn’t always mean that it was related to being vaccinated!
“Reported inability to complete normal daily activities ranged from 10.6% among adults aged ≥65 years to 19.8% among adults aged 18–49 years. Receipt of medical care was reported by 0.8% of registrants; most received care via telehealth (0.3%) or clinic (0.3%) appointment. Hospitalization was reported by 55 (0.03%) registrants. Among 45 registrants with information about the hospitalization available from the v-safe call center or free text message response, 29 indicated that the hospitalization was unrelated to vaccination, 13 completed a VAERS report, and three did not wish to complete a VAERS report.”
Safety Monitoring of Bivalent COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Booster Doses Among Persons Aged ≥12 Years — United States, August 31–October 23, 2022
In fact, the great majority weren’t related to their COVID vaccine.
I’m guessing Sen. Ron Johnson neglected to mention that in his UNMASKED committee hearing.
Instead, he goes with ideas of former employees who believed they knew how to do things better, even though many of the signals they supposedly could uncover weren’t ever found on subsequent study.
There is no link between COVID vaccines and sudden cardiac death, Bell’s palsy, and pulmonary infarction, three of the “statistically significant safety signals for adverse events” that Ana Szarfman was supposed to be able to uncover with her new data mining system.
I’m also sure he didn’t mention that COVID vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are still necessary for those who are high risk and for all of us if a concerning variant emerges that makes it easier for everyone to get sick again.
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Update: v-safe after vaccination health checker (ACIP 2023)
COVID-19 mRNA bivalent booster vaccine safety (ACIP 2023)
Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons
Reactogenicity Following Receipt of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines
Reactogenicity of Simultaneous COVID-19 mRNA Booster and Influenza Vaccination in the US
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