Peter McCullough on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1747

What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), co-run by the CDC and FDA, did accumulate tens of thousands of death reports following COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic, but VAERS is explicitly a passive surveillance system that accepts unverified reports from anyone and "is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem." Both the CDC/FDA and independent fact-checkers state that a raw VAERS death count cannot show whether a vaccine caused or contributed to those deaths, since reports may be incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable; VAERS does not "certify" or vet reports for causation before publishing them, contrary to McCullough's characterization. CDC review of available clinical information (death certificates, autopsy, and medical records) has not established a causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and the vast majority of deaths reported to VAERS; the one confirmed causal fatal safety signal from U.S. COVID-19 vaccines is thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, confirmed in dozens of cases, not tens of thousands of deaths. McCullough's framing of the VAERS death count as confirmed, vaccine-caused fatalities misrepresents what the passive-reporting system actually measures; the claim is misleading.