Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

But it was a different kind of problem that caused the creation of VAERS. As Seth Mnookin reported in his book, The Panic Virus, a legal quagmire revealed itself in the 1970s. As claims were filed by individuals contending they had been harmed by a vaccine, it was unclear what people’s rights and obligations were. Could drug manufacturers be sued? Were governments liable? What about the pediatrician who had vaccinated the child?

Additionally, vaccine injury claims did not need to be scientifically valid to scare vaccine manufacturers. Imagine you are selling a product that does not make you much money but that enough people think is injuring them to the point where you get sued for it. If you have better sources of income, you may reach a point where you decide selling this product is no longer worth it from a financial standpoint. Indeed, the number of vaccine companies willing to distribute vaccines in the litigious United States started to tumble, and in 1986 Americans were left with a single supplier of the vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. Faced with the possibility of simply running out of the vaccine, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). In a nutshell, NCVIA would simplify the whole process and help ensure life-saving vaccines would continue to get distributed in the United States. A surtax would be collected on vaccine doses, which would go to help compensate people judged more likely than not to have been injured by a vaccine through a new vaccine court that would exist outside the traditional legal system.

It is estimated that approximately doses of BNT162b2 were shipped worldwide from the receipt of the first temporary authorisation for emergency supply on 01 December 2020 through 28 February 2021. Cumulatively, through 28 February 2021, there was a total of 42,086 case reports (25,379 medically confirmed and 16,707 non-medically confirmed) containing 158,893 events. Most cases (34,762) were received from United States (13,739), United Kingdom (13,404) Italy (2,578), Germany (1913), France (1506), Portugal (866) and Spain (756); the remaining 7,324 were distributed among 56 other countries.

VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 1,407,409 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 30,935 deaths and 257,227 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Sept. 9, 2022.

Exclusive: Woman injured by J&J vaccine has ‘never seen such meanness’

Sheila Bath, a 60-something chef and life coach from Connecticut, first suspected she’d been injured by the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine on April 11, 2021 — exactly 14 days after she got the vaccine.

In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Bath said her initial symptoms included a burning sensation running from her legs to her spine and numbness in her feet. The symptoms lasted for two months.

“My legs were burning from my ankle all the way up to my lower spine on both sides. Burning, burning, burning,” Bath said. “My feet were numb. It was burning out the nerves in my legs and in my spine.”

She said she also sustained “terrible bruising” on her extremities, dry mouth, worsening vision, inability to walk, cysts on her kidneys, gallstones in her bladder, calf cramps, muscle spasms, depression, brain fog and 20 lbs. of water-weight gain.

These are “classical Guillain-Barré Syndrome symptoms,” Bath said.

Bath suspected the vaccine triggered the symptoms, but doctors were initially reluctant to draw the same conclusion. She told The Defender:

“I didn’t know what Guillain-Barré was, but it’s a very well-known thing that you have to go directly to the hospital. And [my neurologist] could have sent me directly to the hospital. The neurologist neglected to follow the protocol of getting me into hospital when they could have cured it.”

“Three times I went back to him and he sent me home,” she said, telling her, “There’s nothing wrong with you. You’ve got neuropathy because you’re older.”

Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of
ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events
and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.