[giantg2]

One of the big problems with VAERS is the reporting. So many things go unreported. The system is almost useless.

My father-in-law was hospitalized with a stroke about 10 days after receiving the vaccine. By law it was supposed to be reported, but it wasn't.

My kid had an issue 2 days after getting 4 vaccines at once. The treating doctors said they wouldn't submit it, but we could ask the administering provider to do it. I honestly don't think the PA that administered the shots even knew about VAERS. She wouldn't contact us back, and wouldn't even supply lot numbers or other requested info when we realized we had to file it ourselves.

My wife had menstrual changes after her shot. She didn't bother reporting it because it was a pop-up type clinc so it would be "too hard" to look them up and contact them about it.

Many doctors also summarily rule out things being related to the vaccine, even without evidence of a different cause. The whole point of the system is to father the complete set of data, then determine if the rate of occurrence for a reaction is significantly higher than the know rate for the population. We can't do that if the data isn't there.