“Are Vaccine Injuries Rare?” Sources

• 2.6% of vaccinations given incur an associated adverse reaction; “an average of 1.3 events per clinician per month”: https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-support-public-health-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system

• Less than 1% of vaccine injury are reported to VAERS: https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf

• Over 86,000 vaccine injury reports to VAERS in 2024: https://www.openvaers.com/vaersapp/reports.php?year=2024

  • 7,038 vaccine injury reports in babies age two or younger: https://www.openvaers.com/vaersapp/reports.php?age2=2&year=2024

  • 322 reports of death after vaccination in babies age two or younger: https://www.openvaers.com/vaersapp/reports.php?died=Y&age2=2&year=2024

• Federal government has paid $5.3 billion to vaccine injury victims: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data

  • Autism injury payout: https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/CAMPBELL-SMITH.POLING012811.pdf, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-first-ever-vaccine-autism-court-award/

  • Encephalitis injury payout: https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/CAMPBELL-SMITH.MOJABI-PROFFER.12.13.2012.pdf

  • Transverse myelitis injury payout: https://www.cofc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/HASTINGS.Bowes.pdf

  • Death payout: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4481099/tarsell-v-secretary-of-health-and-human-services/

• Countless parents believe a vaccine injured their child: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/browse-all/the-peoples-study/

• CDC considers VAERS an important vaccine safety assessment tool and regularly conducts its own studies using VAERS data: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8255173/#bib0020