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Copied Pasted from Open VAERS WEBSITE NEWSLETTER// Dear ‍RP,

We are alarmed to report that as of November 18, 2022, VAERS has stopped sharing the free text field information in connection with vaccine injury reports from Europe and the UK. Prior to this change, the highest per capita number of VAERS reports came from the UK. To our knowledge it was not formally announced, instead, a strange disclaimer appeared at the bottom of the VAERS Data Sets landing page:

“Disclaimer: At the request of European regulators, CDC and FDA have removed certain data fields (country codes; reported symptom case narrative free text; diagnostic laboratory data free text field; illness at time of vaccination free text field; chronic conditions free text medical history field; allergies free text field) from foreign VAERS reports which were submitted to VAERS and may not comply with European regulations. Domestic (U.S.) VAERS reports are not affected by this process.” [https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html]

As you can imagine, this change makes it very difficult to assess the safety of Covid-19 shots. Some of the totals and charts published by OpenVAERS relied upon data from these fields. While the domestic US data remains unaffected, other charts throughout the site are impacted. See this comparison that we prepared (and notice that the scales are different between the two charts because there are so many fewer reports as a result of this change):” … … … https://openvaers.com/component/acym/archive/59-the-openvaers-red-box-report?userid=48281-vuta7HJQpVFQFQ&tmpl=component&utm_source=newsletter_30&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-openvaers-red-box-report https://openvaers.com/component/acym/archive/59-the-openvaers-red-box-report?userid=48281-vuta7HJQpVFQFQ&tmpl=component&utm_source=newsletter_30&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-openvaers-red-box-report

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