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For all the COVID vaccine truthers that will comment on this story without reading it:

Other countries adverse event reporting system doesn't have the same problems, and reported only a few more rare not-life-threatening adverse effects of vaccines.

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Counterpoint: it’s totally embarrassing that the US public had to learn about the serious issues of myocarditis amongst young men and blood clots from J&J from Israeli and European public health, and that it took several months, and arguably more than a year for US public health to fully acknowledge the myocarditis issue with US data from VSD [0] (let’s put to the side what a mess VAERS is).

European countries acted swiftly to increase the time between primary series doses for anyone under 40 (give or take depending on country), and also restricted Moderna for young men as it’s higher dose produced many more myocarditis cases than Pfizer. US regulators for some reason seem to have a parochial view of data provenance and didn’t take these common sense approaches.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Respectfully, there is a vast continuum between “anti-vax” and “vax-maxxie” that a reasonable and prudent person can occupy. I wish you would extend us the courtesy of registering some of the nuance with which the topic of COVID vaccine policy is routinely discussed.

The Canadian system had issues as well. Extremely difficult to lodge a report.

The UK version has issues as well https://appgpandemic.org/news/yellow-card

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