CBS-17 reports that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is an easy way for people receiving the COVID-19 vaccines to let federal medical experts know precisely what side effects they might be dealing with. It’s also become a treasure trove of data for vaccine skeptics — and misinformation has become a major problem during the massive inoculation effort.
“There is some self-fulfilling prophecy for people who are already predisposed to be opposed to vaccines and/or believe that the vaccine manufacturer and medical groups and the government are not providing them with truthful details,” said David Weber, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. “And that by looking at the raw data, they may uncover things that were not in the more defined data by the FDA or CDC or public health.”