More Than 35,000 Deaths and 47,000 Blood Clotting Disorders Reported Following COVID Vaccination

Deaths reported following COVID-19 vaccination have surpassed 35,000 cases, according to the latest release of data Friday by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

VAERS is a voluntary reporting system co-managed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to detect vaccine safety signals.

Data show  1,553,188 adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 28, 2023. This includes 291,381 reports of serious injuries and 35,274 deaths.

Of the 35,274 reported deaths, 22,002 cases are attributed to Pfizer, 9,970 to Moderna, 3,005 to Johnson & Johnson, and 18 to Novavax. Of the reported deaths, 9% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, and 13% occurred within 48 hours.

In the U.S., 673 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered as of March 22, including 402 million doses of Pfizer, 252 million doses of Moderna, 19 million doses of Johnson & Johnson, and 83,000 doses of Novavax. Our World Data no longer tracks how many people have received COVID-19 vaccines.

Bivalent booster data

As of May 3, the CDC reported 56 million people had received an experimental bivalent booster dose targeting the no-longer-existing Wuhan strain and obsolete BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants.

Since the rollout of bivalent boosters in September 2022 and April 28, there have been 30,280 adverse events reported to VAERS, with 40% attributed to Moderna’s booster and 60% attributed to Pfizer/BioNTech. The data included 260 deaths2,431 serious injuries, and 84 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).

The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of myocarditis. To meet the case definition of myocarditis, people must have had “symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath and feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering or pounding heart, and medical tests to support the diagnosis of myocarditis and rule out other causes.” This allows them to exclude cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes, and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the hospital, obtain a diagnosis, or “dies suddenly.”

The CDC website does not state what happens to these cases, but there is no indication they are tracked or included in the CDC’s myocarditis numbers.

Data for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds

Data for 5- to 11-year-olds

Data for 12- to 17-year-olds

Data for all age groups to VAERS

Although healthcare providers are required by law to report vaccine adverse events to VAERS, research shows very few do. It is essential that anyone who experiences an adverse event report their own injury.