The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t want to release data on Covid-19 vaccine adverse reactions. Its lawyers fought hard to keep the lid on the information taxpayers had paid for, but after two lawsuits and months of litigation, a nonprofit public interest group based in Texas obtained over 144 million rows of health entry data from approximately 10 million users of the CDC’s adverse reaction database.
The group analyzed the data and came away with disturbing news: Hundreds of thousands of the users of the V-safe phone app reporting system had told the CDC they ended up seeking medical care as a result of their Covid-19 vaccination.
Of those, 144 Alaskans reported adverse reactions through the V-safe app, with 83 of those in Anchorage, according to the data table from ICAN.
The CDC created the V-safe app to provide “personalized and confidential health check-ins via text messages and web surveys” so people can easily share with government how they or their dependents feel after getting a Covid-19 vaccine. The information is supposed to help the CDC monitor the safety of the vaccines in near real time, the CDC says on its website.
According to ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network), 7.7% V-Safe users reported that they required medical attention through a telehealth appointment, urgent care clinic, emergency room, or hospitalization, after receiving a Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. That’s 782,913 people out of the 10 million users analyzed.
In addition, ICAN says about 25% of the V-safe app users reported symptoms from the vaccine that caused them to miss work or school, or prevented them from participating in normal daily activities.
ICAN also discovered 71 million reports of symptoms from the approximately 10 million users, or an average of over 7 reported symptoms per person using V-safe. Symptoms included over 4 million reports of joint pain. Around 2 million of these joint pain reports were mild, over 1.8 million were moderate, and over 400,000 were severe joint pain.
Since V-safe only included less than 4 percent of people that received a Covid-19 vaccine, tens of millions of Americans probably had an immune reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine in their joints that resulted in debilitating pain and potential long-term harm, ICAN said.
In a separate study, the arthritis result from vaccines were higher. “One case (6.25%) each of arthritis was reported in patients receiving Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Covaxin vaccines. Symptom onset was observed in half of all cases after the second dose, with an average duration of onset after 7.38 days and all reported cases occurring within two and a half weeks,” according to a peer-reviewed study in the scientific publication Cureus.
Approximately 13,000 infants under the age of 2 were registered by their parents with V-safe. Among those, over 33,000 symptoms were reported by their parents. The most common symptoms were irritability, sleeplessness, pain, and loss of appetite.
“These are very concerning since babies cannot speak and hence these symptoms are how they often communicate that something is wrong,” ICAN observed in its report. In other words, it’s not known what underlying discomfort the babies were experiencing.
ICAN’s data dashboard, shown above, has summaries of the results of the data analysis at this link.
“At the Informed Consent Action Network, you are the authority over your health choices and those of your children. In a medical world manipulated by advertising and financial interests, true information is hard to find and often harder to understand. Our goal is to put the power of scientifically researched health information in your hands and to be bold and transparent in doing so, thereby enabling your medical decisions to come from tangible understanding, not medical coercion,” the group explains.
