WASHINGTON — For more than 30 years, the CDC and FDA have leveraged a powerful tool called the "Vaccine Adverse Reporting System," known simply as "VAERS." Since 1990, the system has been used to help ...

An Aug. 6 post on Substack attempts to prove COVID-19 vaccines are deadly. “VAERS data is crystal clear: The COVID vaccines are killing an estimated 1 person per 1,000 doses (676,000 dead Americans),” ...

The federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System helps researchers collect data on vaccine after-effects and to detect patterns that may warrant a closer look. VAERS is designed as an ...

More than 108.3 million people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of April, but some anti-vaccine groups are using federal data to suggest those inoculations are unsafe. The ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Beware what you see on social media--some information circulating about COVID-19 vaccines is not accurate. VAERS is a data surveillance system from the CDC, but people are ...

The federal government warns that its database of health problems that have occurred in patients after vaccination cannot be interpreted alone to mean that vaccines cause these health problems. Anyone ...

A public database that collects reports of vaccine side effects isn’t considered a reliable source of information about risks associated with COVID-19 vaccines. Established in 1990, the Vaccine ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Social media posts swirling around the internet claim thousands of people have died as a result of taking a COVID-19 vaccine. Those online posts are prompting some 13News viewers to ...

Posts sharing incorrect incident numbers reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are missing context. An example can be seen here, with the caption: “The total number of ...