Have you ever tried to file a VAERS report?!? It’s not easy. I highly doubt people are just doing it for fun. I’ve never had issues with any vaccine in my life. Went to get my first Pfizer shot, a perfectly healthy 38 year old cyclist, and within 24 hours everything went downhill. Ended up on immune suppressing meds for months. I’ve never felt that terrible in my life. And guess what. That was over two years ago and I’ve heard not a thing from VAERS!
The only vaccine that did not have a list of potential side effects paperwork to read and sign I have ever taken was the emergency use mRNA shot from Pfizer. Why is that? Did they not know yet? Have you noticed that EVERY other drug advertised on TV lists all potential side effects in a rapid fire monologue but nothing from all those Pfizer ads still running on TV.
Dr Offit...I have two elderly parents who have religiously vaccinated and boosted. One of them took the first available and 5 days later was hospitalized with clots in both lungs. The hospital kept testing for Covid saying she must have Covid. She was negative every day. Finally they sent her home and said that even though she had not had a DVT prior, she must have had a DVT. Both lungs - many clots...not your typical situation. Honestly none of us thought there was a relation to the vaccine at the time because she is old. It was 5 days later most of us think an allergic or adverse event is going to occur within an hour or 24 hours as most paperwork with vaccines says BOLO for that time frame. Clots had never been mentioned as a potential adverse event or certainly not publicized. She has been on anti coagulation since then has continued to take all the boosters. The last booster she had, she had severe chest pain 48 hours later and her 02 dropped to the 70s. Back to the ER. Tested for everything under the sun. Nothing was wrong. She was told it was GERD and sent home. Now I ask this. Since when does GERD drop your oxygen? It took about 24 hours while she was in hospital for the pain to resolve and she was able to maintain her sats with supplemental oxygen. When pain resolved O2 went back up.
My parents are well educated with excellent health care. They even have a concierge physician - he was the one who told my mom to go to the hospital when she called about the severe pain that turned out to be the clots. Imagine if she had not made that call. Imagine if at 85 she had just died at home. Would anyone have examined COD? Probably not. She is elderly. How many elderly might have died after the vaccines but were just old. Our parents went to the health dept to get their shots. Neither their family practice nor the hospital even asked about her vaccine status that first time in the hospital. That shot info was at public health. Do you have confidence that follow up for all the high risk individuals who got the mRNA vaccine were properly followed? Can we be confident that side effects won’t be things we see over time? I personally - not to overshare watched my 19 year old daughter’s lymph nodes in her neck swell to the size of baseballs after the second shot. Took about 8 weeks to resolve. I am a healthy individual who also vaccinated and was unable to continue for three months with my regular exercise regime. Went to see my doctor who decided I had adult onset exercise induced asthma. He is a good man but I did not start an inhaler. I made an appt with a cardiologist who could not see me for two plus months. About the time of my appt it was resolving. I was told I must have had Covid. But I tested multiple times. Never positive. I have four children who received all the vaccines available. I believe in our healthcare systems. Or rather I did. But none of my three boys under 20 got the shots.
You mention the VAERS does follow up on cases. I reported my moms, my daughters and my symptoms post vaccine to Pfizer, Moderna and VAERS and that was not easy. I have not heard from anyone. I am nervous about posting this publicly. So much shaming involved if you speak out. But I have been following you and I respect you and believe you are about public health and not beholden to funding sources. I agree VAERS is a suspect data source. But how are we following up? How can we be sure that all these vaccinated people who are still getting Covid are faring better than if they would just stop boosting?
Please Dr Offit, provide extraordinary evidence for your extraordinary claim “COVID vaccines are estimated to have saved at least 3.2 million lives in the U.S. alone.” [1]
You’ve said this numerous times, citing various models.
These models are easily falsifiable.
3.4 million people died in 2020, roughly 500k more than expected. There were no vaccines during this time.
Then, in 2021, most of the US got vaccinated and.... there were still 3.4 million deaths.
Explain to us how you come to the conclusion “we saved 3.2 million lives”.
I’ve long admired you, own many of your books (including a preorder for your new one), but this is a ridiculous claim.
Dr. Offit, where is your evidence? for such a science based guy, you sure do make a lot of bogus pronouncements on substack. But of course we should trust you because you are independent of Big Pharma... are you? What would happen if you told the truth about all of the vaccines safety issues?
You know how to eliminate the vax as the cause of the jump in all cause mortality? Have each sudden death of a healthy person treated as a crime scene with mandatory autopsy and pathology report and exact times of vaccinations.
Instead we have a CDC burying their heads in the sand and acting like they have no idea what is happening. It's a disgrace and why people have lost faith in the medical system. And to make matters worse, they have medical doctors running cover for them along with the media.
It's time for an overhaul of our medical system to rid it of the greed and corruption once and for all.
Dr. Offit, we demand data and studies that are not funded by NIH and Big Pharma. Those of us in primary healthcare see major negative effects from medications and medical interventions that are “proven safe” by NIH studies. It makes it impossible to believe those studies.
In regard to COVID and the vaccines, every one of the people I know in medicine has seen an alarming uptick in deaths and strange and fast occurring diseases/cancers. I have been practicing for 27 years and never seen this level of spontaneous disease and death.
In specific to the mRNA vaccines, I have had approximately 3000 active patients over the last 4 years, with over 16,000 visits. I have seen at least a dozen people who have had serious AEs (life injuring) from the vaccines: That’s a 1 in 250 instance of serious AE.
Since Jan 2021, I have had more patients die from unexpected causes than from chronic diseases. I have also heard directly of many, many spontaneous deaths of love ones of patients. Some of them were known to be soon after the vaccine. Furthermore the number of “unexpected” death is beyond any I had ever heard before. In 2021 and 2022 it was a weekly occurrence to hear of a love-one dying. And most were unexpected. Many were very fast killing cancers, blood clots, heart attacks, and pure spontaneous death of unknown cause.
You say this is anecdotal? People don’t make up the unexpected death of a loved one. Because of what I do, I usually hear about every death in a persons immediate life. The last three years eclipse the covid deaths in 2020 by many factors. Same for all the years since I started practicing.
And, most importantly, Dr. Offit, revisit your Hippocratic oath, “First, do no harm.”. You seem to believe that vaccines are a huge positive benefit for society. However, the evidence is weak and what “evidence” there is promoted by the system that is funded directly from the system that profits from the pain and suffering of the citizens.
The more we study the immune system, the more we should realize it is much smarter and more capable than medicine at protecting us. Leave it alone. The level of chronic disease is mind-blowing. If vaccines are a part of that disease, then we need to cease them immediately.
I see... you mean to tell me that vaccine deaths were overcounted by "conspiracy theorists" like Tucker. Died with the vaccine, not died from the vaccine. Now do the same for the CDC (and "news" sources who repeated and amplified the mis-information) dramatically overcounting deaths from the disease itself.
One of my coworkers died two weeks after her first booster. It made her really sick. When she felt better she went ahead and performed with her traditional dance group. She dropped dead. She was in her 40s and active. No one filed a VAERs. Her family didn’t relate her death to the shot. I don’t believe there was mass over reporting. I think it is under reported.
Everyone knows that Vaers under-reports for all other vaccines with at least a factor of 10, probably much more. But all of a sudden for these new mRNA shots people are over-reporting. I fail to follow that logic. Furthermore there are multiple scientific papers that confirm the vast amount of severe adverse effects from these shots. And the side effects of these shots have also been confirmed by the special system developed during the pandemic, the V-safe app data. That data is shown here:
Paul, are you serious? Have you seen any of my analyses? The rate per million doses of death for the COVID-19 shots is exceedingly higher when compared to ONLY influenza vaccines (ONLY 2020 (Influenza vaccines) and 2021 (COVID products)). What you wrote here is a glaring misunderstanding of what's going on in VAERS. And reports are legally meant to be made for all adverse events, not just serious ones. I'd be happy to run it by you, if you like. I also gave a webinar about this subject matter and you can check out my slides here: https://www.jessicasuniverse.com/_files/ugd/eabd45_db46825497e24f9fb9c7a7ead46cf6b1.pdf
1. I'm and experienced computer programmer consultant. I looked at VAERS in an attempt to fill out a form on my side effects. It's very difficult to navigate and even harder to submit a report. The vast majority of reports are almost certainly from doctors and nurses familiar with the system because the average person will not successfully submit a report using VAERS.
2. The number of doctors and nurses with the time to fill out a report is almost certainly a small percentage of actual side effects reported. So the cases are absolutely certain to understated.
3. Of course some people will die for reasons other that the vaccine just by chance. However, since it's mostly medical professionals filling these reports out, the number of random cases of death that had nothing to do with the vaccine is probably a small percentage of the overall reports. It's certainly not all of them. Medical professionals know when it might be related to the vaccine based on the symptoms and health status of the patient at the time.
4. At the absolutely minimum, these cases should have been investigated, but most are not due to lack of resources given there are so many.
5. These reports should have been setting of red flags and flares from day one of the reports because caution was paramount and the number was huge and wildly underreported. That it took people outside the medical community to raise red flags and flares tells you how corrupt the medical community is.
It is important to realize that by trying to mandate vaccines on EVERYBODY, including those healthy people under the age of 50, the pharmaceutical vaccine industrial complex has been actively working to erase ANY possible control group to use to identify "excess deaths" or injuries due to the vaccine or otherwise.
One of the many evil, unethical aspects of this whole Covid vaccine scheme.
My 60+ year old cousin got pericarditis and tried to report it 4 times and finally gave up. Her cardiologist told her he couldn't report it because it glitches all the time and to a specialist like him time is in short supply. Her brother also came down with Afib and myocarditis. Both were fine before covid vaccines. If anything, VAERS is under reported to. Just like that Harvard study found over a decade ago.
DR OFFIT, we hear you called Dr Proffit an awful lot. Why?
Because you pushed the rotavirus vaccine you owned onto unsuspecting infants, and now we have generations of kids who can't poo because it caused intussusception. You don't care about damages vaccine cause children.
Also why didn't you demand a better easier to use by drs injury reporting system? 1986 was well over 35 years ago. Was it because you don't want the $ to stop? Ppl are not stupid.
Vaers is almost impossible to report to. My cousin tried 4 different times and every time near the end of the process after an hour it threw her out saying "Data Not Saved".
Have you ever tried to file a VAERS report?!? It’s not easy. I highly doubt people are just doing it for fun. I’ve never had issues with any vaccine in my life. Went to get my first Pfizer shot, a perfectly healthy 38 year old cyclist, and within 24 hours everything went downhill. Ended up on immune suppressing meds for months. I’ve never felt that terrible in my life. And guess what. That was over two years ago and I’ve heard not a thing from VAERS!
The only vaccine that did not have a list of potential side effects paperwork to read and sign I have ever taken was the emergency use mRNA shot from Pfizer. Why is that? Did they not know yet? Have you noticed that EVERY other drug advertised on TV lists all potential side effects in a rapid fire monologue but nothing from all those Pfizer ads still running on TV.
Dr Offit...I have two elderly parents who have religiously vaccinated and boosted. One of them took the first available and 5 days later was hospitalized with clots in both lungs. The hospital kept testing for Covid saying she must have Covid. She was negative every day. Finally they sent her home and said that even though she had not had a DVT prior, she must have had a DVT. Both lungs - many clots...not your typical situation. Honestly none of us thought there was a relation to the vaccine at the time because she is old. It was 5 days later most of us think an allergic or adverse event is going to occur within an hour or 24 hours as most paperwork with vaccines says BOLO for that time frame. Clots had never been mentioned as a potential adverse event or certainly not publicized. She has been on anti coagulation since then has continued to take all the boosters. The last booster she had, she had severe chest pain 48 hours later and her 02 dropped to the 70s. Back to the ER. Tested for everything under the sun. Nothing was wrong. She was told it was GERD and sent home. Now I ask this. Since when does GERD drop your oxygen? It took about 24 hours while she was in hospital for the pain to resolve and she was able to maintain her sats with supplemental oxygen. When pain resolved O2 went back up.
My parents are well educated with excellent health care. They even have a concierge physician - he was the one who told my mom to go to the hospital when she called about the severe pain that turned out to be the clots. Imagine if she had not made that call. Imagine if at 85 she had just died at home. Would anyone have examined COD? Probably not. She is elderly. How many elderly might have died after the vaccines but were just old. Our parents went to the health dept to get their shots. Neither their family practice nor the hospital even asked about her vaccine status that first time in the hospital. That shot info was at public health. Do you have confidence that follow up for all the high risk individuals who got the mRNA vaccine were properly followed? Can we be confident that side effects won’t be things we see over time? I personally - not to overshare watched my 19 year old daughter’s lymph nodes in her neck swell to the size of baseballs after the second shot. Took about 8 weeks to resolve. I am a healthy individual who also vaccinated and was unable to continue for three months with my regular exercise regime. Went to see my doctor who decided I had adult onset exercise induced asthma. He is a good man but I did not start an inhaler. I made an appt with a cardiologist who could not see me for two plus months. About the time of my appt it was resolving. I was told I must have had Covid. But I tested multiple times. Never positive. I have four children who received all the vaccines available. I believe in our healthcare systems. Or rather I did. But none of my three boys under 20 got the shots.
You mention the VAERS does follow up on cases. I reported my moms, my daughters and my symptoms post vaccine to Pfizer, Moderna and VAERS and that was not easy. I have not heard from anyone. I am nervous about posting this publicly. So much shaming involved if you speak out. But I have been following you and I respect you and believe you are about public health and not beholden to funding sources. I agree VAERS is a suspect data source. But how are we following up? How can we be sure that all these vaccinated people who are still getting Covid are faring better than if they would just stop boosting?
Please Dr Offit, provide extraordinary evidence for your extraordinary claim “COVID vaccines are estimated to have saved at least 3.2 million lives in the U.S. alone.” [1]
You’ve said this numerous times, citing various models.
These models are easily falsifiable.
3.4 million people died in 2020, roughly 500k more than expected. There were no vaccines during this time.
Then, in 2021, most of the US got vaccinated and.... there were still 3.4 million deaths.
Explain to us how you come to the conclusion “we saved 3.2 million lives”.
I’ve long admired you, own many of your books (including a preorder for your new one), but this is a ridiculous claim.
Signed, a confused fan.
________
[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/main-lessons-covid-19-pandemic-excerpt
People won’t spend 20 seconds on anything nowadays, much less hours filling out VAERS reports unless it’s for a good reason.
Dr. Offit, where is your evidence? for such a science based guy, you sure do make a lot of bogus pronouncements on substack. But of course we should trust you because you are independent of Big Pharma... are you? What would happen if you told the truth about all of the vaccines safety issues?
You know how to eliminate the vax as the cause of the jump in all cause mortality? Have each sudden death of a healthy person treated as a crime scene with mandatory autopsy and pathology report and exact times of vaccinations.
Instead we have a CDC burying their heads in the sand and acting like they have no idea what is happening. It's a disgrace and why people have lost faith in the medical system. And to make matters worse, they have medical doctors running cover for them along with the media.
It's time for an overhaul of our medical system to rid it of the greed and corruption once and for all.
Dr. Offit, we demand data and studies that are not funded by NIH and Big Pharma. Those of us in primary healthcare see major negative effects from medications and medical interventions that are “proven safe” by NIH studies. It makes it impossible to believe those studies.
In regard to COVID and the vaccines, every one of the people I know in medicine has seen an alarming uptick in deaths and strange and fast occurring diseases/cancers. I have been practicing for 27 years and never seen this level of spontaneous disease and death.
In specific to the mRNA vaccines, I have had approximately 3000 active patients over the last 4 years, with over 16,000 visits. I have seen at least a dozen people who have had serious AEs (life injuring) from the vaccines: That’s a 1 in 250 instance of serious AE.
Since Jan 2021, I have had more patients die from unexpected causes than from chronic diseases. I have also heard directly of many, many spontaneous deaths of love ones of patients. Some of them were known to be soon after the vaccine. Furthermore the number of “unexpected” death is beyond any I had ever heard before. In 2021 and 2022 it was a weekly occurrence to hear of a love-one dying. And most were unexpected. Many were very fast killing cancers, blood clots, heart attacks, and pure spontaneous death of unknown cause.
You say this is anecdotal? People don’t make up the unexpected death of a loved one. Because of what I do, I usually hear about every death in a persons immediate life. The last three years eclipse the covid deaths in 2020 by many factors. Same for all the years since I started practicing.
And, most importantly, Dr. Offit, revisit your Hippocratic oath, “First, do no harm.”. You seem to believe that vaccines are a huge positive benefit for society. However, the evidence is weak and what “evidence” there is promoted by the system that is funded directly from the system that profits from the pain and suffering of the citizens.
The more we study the immune system, the more we should realize it is much smarter and more capable than medicine at protecting us. Leave it alone. The level of chronic disease is mind-blowing. If vaccines are a part of that disease, then we need to cease them immediately.
I see... you mean to tell me that vaccine deaths were overcounted by "conspiracy theorists" like Tucker. Died with the vaccine, not died from the vaccine. Now do the same for the CDC (and "news" sources who repeated and amplified the mis-information) dramatically overcounting deaths from the disease itself.
One of my coworkers died two weeks after her first booster. It made her really sick. When she felt better she went ahead and performed with her traditional dance group. She dropped dead. She was in her 40s and active. No one filed a VAERs. Her family didn’t relate her death to the shot. I don’t believe there was mass over reporting. I think it is under reported.
Everyone knows that Vaers under-reports for all other vaccines with at least a factor of 10, probably much more. But all of a sudden for these new mRNA shots people are over-reporting. I fail to follow that logic. Furthermore there are multiple scientific papers that confirm the vast amount of severe adverse effects from these shots. And the side effects of these shots have also been confirmed by the special system developed during the pandemic, the V-safe app data. That data is shown here:
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/exclusive-aaron-siri-breaks-down-cdcs-v-safe-data/
You forgot to mention to Harvard study that showed that only about 1% of adverse reactions get reported to VAERS making reactions highly underreported not over reported as you imply. https://landofree.substack.com/p/harvard-vaccine-injury-study-revealed
Paul, are you serious? Have you seen any of my analyses? The rate per million doses of death for the COVID-19 shots is exceedingly higher when compared to ONLY influenza vaccines (ONLY 2020 (Influenza vaccines) and 2021 (COVID products)). What you wrote here is a glaring misunderstanding of what's going on in VAERS. And reports are legally meant to be made for all adverse events, not just serious ones. I'd be happy to run it by you, if you like. I also gave a webinar about this subject matter and you can check out my slides here: https://www.jessicasuniverse.com/_files/ugd/eabd45_db46825497e24f9fb9c7a7ead46cf6b1.pdf
1. I'm and experienced computer programmer consultant. I looked at VAERS in an attempt to fill out a form on my side effects. It's very difficult to navigate and even harder to submit a report. The vast majority of reports are almost certainly from doctors and nurses familiar with the system because the average person will not successfully submit a report using VAERS.
2. The number of doctors and nurses with the time to fill out a report is almost certainly a small percentage of actual side effects reported. So the cases are absolutely certain to understated.
3. Of course some people will die for reasons other that the vaccine just by chance. However, since it's mostly medical professionals filling these reports out, the number of random cases of death that had nothing to do with the vaccine is probably a small percentage of the overall reports. It's certainly not all of them. Medical professionals know when it might be related to the vaccine based on the symptoms and health status of the patient at the time.
4. At the absolutely minimum, these cases should have been investigated, but most are not due to lack of resources given there are so many.
5. These reports should have been setting of red flags and flares from day one of the reports because caution was paramount and the number was huge and wildly underreported. That it took people outside the medical community to raise red flags and flares tells you how corrupt the medical community is.
We know you are lying,
You know you are lying, you know we know you are lying, we know you know we know you are lying,
but you still lie.
See how this goes?
It is important to realize that by trying to mandate vaccines on EVERYBODY, including those healthy people under the age of 50, the pharmaceutical vaccine industrial complex has been actively working to erase ANY possible control group to use to identify "excess deaths" or injuries due to the vaccine or otherwise.
One of the many evil, unethical aspects of this whole Covid vaccine scheme.
My 60+ year old cousin got pericarditis and tried to report it 4 times and finally gave up. Her cardiologist told her he couldn't report it because it glitches all the time and to a specialist like him time is in short supply. Her brother also came down with Afib and myocarditis. Both were fine before covid vaccines. If anything, VAERS is under reported to. Just like that Harvard study found over a decade ago.
DR OFFIT, we hear you called Dr Proffit an awful lot. Why?
Because you pushed the rotavirus vaccine you owned onto unsuspecting infants, and now we have generations of kids who can't poo because it caused intussusception. You don't care about damages vaccine cause children.
Also why didn't you demand a better easier to use by drs injury reporting system? 1986 was well over 35 years ago. Was it because you don't want the $ to stop? Ppl are not stupid.
Vaers is almost impossible to report to. My cousin tried 4 different times and every time near the end of the process after an hour it threw her out saying "Data Not Saved".