Tucker Carlson Misrepresents Vaccine Safety Reporting Data
SciCheck Digest
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System accepts any reports of adverse side effects following vaccination to help regulators detect potential problems. Anyone can submit a report, whether or not the incident is vaccine-related. Fox News host Tucker Carlson misrepresented the VAERS data to suggest that thousands have died from COVID-19 vaccines.
No serious safety concerns were found in the clinical trials of the vaccines that have been authorized for use in the United States. On April 13, the CDC and Food and Drug Administration “a pause in the use” of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The agencies the pause on April 23, shortly after the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to resume the vaccine’s use with a about a rare, severe type of that mostly occurred in women aged 18 to 49 years old. At its April 23 meeting, the ACIP that, as of April 21, there were 15 cases of the rare clotting condition combined with low levels of platelets among
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