Americans opposed to the COVID-19 vaccines are focusing attention on a federal website dedicated to possible side effects, using it to sometimes falsely insist that the vaccines have killed thousands ...

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was established to protect public health. Now it's being used against it.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has received calls asking us to look into an online tool to monitor COVID-19 shots and other vaccinations. Unverified information on social media is claiming it shows the COVID-19 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - It’s a tool used to report or research potential side effects of vaccinations. The Department of Health and Human Services’ website, VAERS, has been circulating on social media ...

Following the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, social media lit up with posts questioning the decision with claims that thousands of people have died because of the vaccine. The ...

Users are claiming that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deleted reports of 6,000 deaths from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The CDC told Reuters the entry ...

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 ...