Toby Rogers, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Toby Rogers, Ph.D., M.P.P.

@uTobian

10 Tweets Feb 13, 2023
I got hit by two reporters, @shayla__love & @annamerlan, at Vice.com today. They are apoplectic because the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting system is showing so many deaths & injuries from coronavirus vaccines and they have volunteered to hide Pharma's crimes. 1/
Let me set the record straight because neither of these reporters contacted me for a comment (even though I'm easy to find). They quote a tweet where I point out that VAERS data β€œrepresents an estimated 1% of actual vaccine injuries." They then label this as "false" & then... 2/
they call Paul Offit who claims to not understand where this 1% number comes from. Paul Offit is of course lying (natch, that's what he's paid to to). If these reporters would have contacted me for comment I would have pointed them to... 3/
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler who noted in JAMA in 1993 that only a small percentage of adverse events from Pharma products are ever reported. Kessler knew the FDA better than anyone & saw this underreporting as a crisis. Sadly his calls for reform were ignored. 4/
Here's the full citation:
Kessler, D. A., et al. (1993). Introducing MEDWatch: a new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effects and product problems. JAMA, 269(21), 2765–2768.
jamanetwork.com
If you read the article you will see that Kessler cites Scott et al. (1987), in a study of physicians in Rhode Island, who found that β€˜only about 1% of serious adverse events are reported to the FDA’ (Kessler, 1993, p. 2765). That's where the number comes from.
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Here's the full Scott citation:
Scott, H. D., Rosenbaum, S. E., Waters, W. J., Colt, A. M., Andrews, L. G., Juergens, J. P., & Faich, G. A. (1987). Rhode Island physicians' recognition and reporting of adverse drug reactions. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 70(7), 311–316.
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We also have a very important point of comparison -- Lazarus & Klompas (2011) in a study of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care who found that 2.6% of all vaccines injected cause an adverse event. So we know that VAERS is a dramatic undercount of actual injuries.
digital.ahrq.gov
I take my work very seriously. With Pharma spending billions of $ to track, censor, & bully anyone who threatens their profits, critics like me have to always cite our sources and get things right. If either reporter would have contacted me, they would have discovered that.
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Fascinating post script to all of this. Vice is owned by The Walt Disney Company (16%), A&E Networks (20%), TPG Capital (44%), & Soros Fund (10%). Disney & Vice are part of the Ad Council's "COVID Collaborative". Was this hit piece paid product placement?
adcouncil-covid-vaccine-education-initiative.s3.amazonaws.com

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