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Expanded reporting requirements and intense scrutiny of the hundreds of millions administered COVID-19 vaccine doses have driven record reporting of potential side effects to one of the government’s vaccine safety monitoring systems. Social media posts, however, have misleadingly insinuated that the increase in reports means the vaccines are unsafe.
Viral social media posts continue to misuse the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System data, and flawed calculations, to claim the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children is unsafe and will cause many more deaths than it will prevent.
Fact Check: Viral posts misuse VAERS data to make false claims about COVID-19 vaccines Share Updated: 5:40 PM PDT Apr 8, 2021 By Catalina Jaramillo, FactCheck.org TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 5:40 PM PDT Apr 8, 2021 By Catalina Jaramillo, FactCheck.org Posted on March 31, 2021; Leer en españolWe are collaborating with FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, in an effort to identify misinformation and to ensure news consumers get the facts. This story first appeared on FactCheck.org.Sc...