Numbers from VAERS
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a program set up in 1990 by the Centers for Disease Control that enables individuals to report adverse effects from the administration of a vaccine. The VAERS home page (https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html) notes that because this is a "passive" reporting system, it is "not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem, but is especially useful for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns . . . that might indicate a possible safety problem with a vaccine."
The following graphs distill Covid vaccine data reported to VAERS as of October 22, 2021. Healthcare professionals are required by law to report deaths and certain other serious...
