The largest U.S. database for detecting events that might be vaccine side effects is being used by activiststo spread disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
I wonder if antivaxxers have a conscience.
Known as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, the database includes hundreds of thousands of reports of health events that occurred minutes, hours or days after vaccination. Many of the reported events are coincidental — things that happen by chance, not caused by the shot. But when millions of people are vaccinated within a short period, the total number of these reported events can look big.
