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In contrast, rigorous evaluation by the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research concluded that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine met the FDA safety standards required for approval. (Table 6). While reports of vaccine side effects continue to roll in across the globe, the FDAs initial request of 75 years to release the data, which is linked to its decision in December 2020 to grant Pfizer-BioNTech Emergency Use Authorisation for its mRNA vaccine, was finally turned down and subsequently, a judge ordered the release of data to begin in March, citing the request as paramount to public importance. Therefore, these reports dont establish a causal relationship between the events and the vaccine. The overall incidence of unsolicited non-serious adverse events from dose 1 to data cutoff (April 29, 2022) were similar in the vaccine and placebo groups in both age groups: 29.1% vs. 26.3% for the younger age group and 18.5% vs. 18.5% in the older age group, respectively. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration inspects vaccine production facilities and reviews manufacturing protocols to make sure vaccine doses are of high-quality and free of contaminants. Instead, it collects data on adverse events reported following vaccination. To make sure serious allergic reactions can be identified and treated, all people receiving a vaccine should be observed for 15 minutes after getting a shot, and anyone who has experienced anaphylaxis or had any kind of immediate allergic reaction to any vaccine or injection in the past should be monitored for a half hour. Covering the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Almeria, Axarquia, Mallorca and beyond, EWN supports and inspires the individuals, neighbourhoods, and communities we serve, by delivering news with a social conscience. Expert groups continue to recommend use of the drug during pregnancy when necessary and in consultation with a doctor. After dose 1, the older age group (2 4 years) reported pain/tenderness more frequently than the younger age group (6 23 months) (30.8% vs 16.6%); a similar pattern was observed after dose 2 and 3 (31.0% vs 15.0% and 26.7% vs 16.0%, respectively). The document was released by the FDA in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. [8acf;-.6-v]\)puZ$ir}WvXJYp. We are thrilled by these data as this is the first-ever investigational vaccine shown to help protect newborns against severe RSV-related respiratory illness immediately at birth, said Annaliesa Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Vaccine Research & Development, Pfizer. The most common solicited systemic adverse reaction after any dose was irritability (43.6% 51.2%) among ages 6 23 months and fatigue (24.5% 29.7%) among ages 2 4 years. Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices. persons aged 1217 years in the United States Thank you for taking the time to read this article, do remember to come back and checkThe Euro Weekly Newswebsite for all your up-to-date local and international news stories and remember, you can also follow us onFacebookandInstagram. At that pace, all of the information will be released by the end of the summer. Pfizer may have been the first company to deliver on the promises of former President Trumps Operation Warp Speed, but it was an exceedingly rocky road for the Although talking about the Moderna vaccine, a viral post from Twitter user Louie Traub said: Im 41 and on now heart medication thanks to Moderna. Published on: 11 Mar 2022 | Editor: Iria Carballo-Carbajal. The observed efficacy for severe medically attended lower respiratory tract illness (severe MA-LRTI) was 81.8% (CI: 40.6%, 96.3%) through the first 90 days of life. aMild: >2.0 to 5.0 cm; moderate: >5.0 to 10.0 cm; severe: >10.0 cm; Grade 4: necrosis (redness and swelling categories) or exfoliative dermatitis (redness category only). Selected Adverse Events Reported after COVID-19 Vaccination, FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine, CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT, REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021, . Pfizer. Pfizers investigational RSV vaccine candidate builds on foundational basic science discoveries including those made at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which detailed the crystal structure of prefusion F, a key form of the viral fusion protein (F) that RSV uses to enter human cells. This week, a 55 000-page set of documents revealed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, has 1,291 side effects. Redness was reported slightly more frequently in the older age group than the younger age group (10.9% vs 7.5% after dose 3). Specifically, it mentions incomplete clinical information and external factors that might influence reporting, such as the seriousness of the reaction and awareness by health professionals and consumers. WebThe overall incidence of unsolicited non-serious adverse events from dose 1 to data cutoff (April 29, 2022) were similar in the vaccine and placebo groups in both age groups: 29.1% vs. 26.3% for the younger age group and 18.5% vs. 18.5% in the older age group, The bivalent vaccine candidate is composed of equal amounts of recombinant RSV prefusion F from subgroups A and B. Pfizer is currently the only company with an investigational vaccine being prepared for regulatory applications for both infants through maternal immunization and older adults to help protect against RSV. Fatigue, headache, muscle pain Other commonly reported side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine include fatigue, headache, and muscle pain. Similar claims also spread via the U.K. tabloid Express and the website Rebel News, identified as promoting propaganda and conspiracy theories by Media Bias/Fact Check, as well as video platforms. Linking to a non-federal website does not constitute an endorsement by CDC or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the website. COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States. COVID Data Tracker. 6 Hall CB, et al. This will literally include every scrap of paper that was submitted to FDA for the entirety of the pandemic, Zalewski told MedPage Today. He also suggests Dr.Janet Woodcock, the acting FDA commissioner when the agency gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine, was wrong tosaythat millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines.. In the video, which garnered more than 1.5 million views in just three days, he incorrectly implies that the vaccine caused the reported health problems. The FDA proposed releasing 500 pages a month instead, which it said was the standard rate. So, thats what people across the globe are currently doing. However, Zach Zalewski, PhD, JD, a regulatory strategy consultant at Avalere Health, warned that there is the potential of cherry picking information after the huge data release, which is set to conclude in the summer. The most commonly observed adverse events were consistent with those reported as local and systemic reactions and/or were consistent with events frequently reported in this age group, including infections and injuries, that were not considered related to vaccination. Most reported cases following J&J vaccination have occurred in men 50 years old and older. A maternal vaccine with high efficacy that can help protect infants from birth could substantially reduce the burden of severe RSV among newborns through six months of age, and, if approved by regulatory authorities, will likely have a significant impact on disease in the U.S. and globally.. posted on March 9. release syndrome;Cytokine storm;De novo purine synthesis inhibitors The document is an analysis of adverse events, or health issues reported following vaccination, regardless of whether they were caused by the vaccine. CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT. We take your privacy seriously. There is evidence that the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines may rarely cause inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or of the surrounding lining (pericarditis), particularly in male adolescents and young adults. On Jan. 6, a judge in North Texas recognized the unduly burdensome challenges of the FOIA, but sided with the plaintiff, concluding the request was of paramount public importance. He set the deadline for the first tranche of documents for Jan. 31, with another 55,000 pages to be released every month. By definition, an adverse event is a temporal association, Dr.Paul Beninger, a pharmacovigilance expert at the Tufts University School of Medicine, told us, referring to the timing of the event. In her post, Wheeler even calls the appendix the relevant part, and Campbell argues the public should have been aware of the conditions so people could have kept an eye out for them., The document was released by the FDA in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, . Pain/tenderness at the injection site was the most frequent and severe reported solicited local reaction among vaccine recipients. One year ago, these were side effects that Pfizer knew about, conservative commentator Liz Wheeler says in an Instagram post, before highlighting a long list of so-called adverse events of special interest in the documents appendix. c Mild: 2 to 3 loose stools in 24 hours; moderate: 4 to 5 loose stools in 24 hours; severe: 6 or more loose stools in 24 hours; Grade 4: emergency room visit or hospitalization for severe diarrhea. Email sent to FactCheck.org. Vaccines can give your body way to identify an infecting agent, and instructions on how to defeat itand potentially, avoid infecting others. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced positive top-line data from the Phase 3 clinical trial (NCT04424316) MATISSE (MATernal Immunization Study for Safety and Efficacy) investigating its bivalent RSV prefusion vaccine candidate, RSVpreF or PF-06928316, when administered to pregnant participants to help protect their infants from RSV disease after birth. who develop GBS fully recover, although some have permanent nerve damage and the condition can be fatal. On March 2, 2022, Pfizer announced that its vaccine candidate received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the FDA for the prevention of RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease in infants up to six months of age by active immunization of pregnant women. Many people have reported side effects, such as headache, fatigue, and soreness at the injection site, that are generally mild to moderate and go away within a few days. At least now we know why the FDA and Pfizer wanted to keep this data under wraps for 75 years. Two serious adverse events were considered by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as possibly related to vaccine: shoulder injury possibly related to vaccine administration or to the vaccine itself, and lymphadenopathy involving the axilla contralateral to the vaccine injection site. Maternal participants 49 years of age were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive a single dose of either 120 g of Pfizers RSVpreF or placebo during the late second to third trimester of their pregnancy. We depend on your support to operate. After the FDA began releasing Pfizers documents, these earlier claims merged with those questioning vaccine safety (see examples here and here). The FDA did not oppose releasing the information, but denied the groups request for expedited processing, leading PHMPT to sue the agency in federal court in September, as MedPage Today hasexplained. Ever since the first vaccine was developed in 1796 to treat smallpox,1 several different methods have been created to develop successful vaccines. For both age groups, fatigue, headache and new or worsened muscle pain were most common. As of March 1, 2022, the following secondary endpoints had not yet been analyzed: reduction of incidence of all CDI cases following the second and the third We look forward to working with the FDA and other regulatory agencies to bring this vaccine candidate to expectant mothers to help protect their infants against severe RSV during their most vulnerable first six months of life, which has the highest burden of RSV illness in infants. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also suggests Dr. , the acting FDA commissioner when the agency gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine, was wrong to, that millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines., All of these posts misunderstand what is being reported in the Pfizer. Swiss athlete Sarah Atcho shared on Instagram that she now suffers from pericarditis, an inflammation of the membrane that covers the heart, which was caused after she received the 3rd dose of the Covid vaccine. That means all the Pfizer vaccine The majority of systemic events were mild or moderate in severity, but there was a higher occurrence of grade 3 or higher reactions in the vaccine group. There is no screening or vetting of the report and no attempt to determine if the vaccine was responsible for the problem. At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. 7 Rha B, et al. Of those, 313,499 (92.1%) were considered nonserious; 22,527 (6.6%) were serious, but did not include death; and 4,496 (1.3%) were deaths. MMWR. Jaramillo, Catalina. The first pages of the document, too, explicitly address many of the limitations of adverse event reporting to help properly interpret the data limitations. A popular video and other online posts, however, incorrectly imply that the vaccine caused the events. Lancet 2022; 399: 2047-64. The document itself warns readers about the limitations of adverse event reports. Known as the PEOPLES PAPER, Euro Weekly News is the leading English language newspaper in Spain. Data on local reactions were not solicited from persons aged 16-17 years. Among all vaccine recipients, 66.6% reported at least one systemic reaction in the 7 days after vaccination. No grade 4 local reactions were reported. bMild: hurts if gently touched; moderate: hurts if gently touched with crying; severe: causes limitation of limb movement; Grade 4: emergency room visit or hospitalization for severe tenderness at the injection site. No bells palsy or anaphylaxis was reported among vaccine recipients in this age group. MATISSE is an ongoing randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of RSVpreF against medically attended lower respiratory tract illness (MA-LRTI) and severe MA-LRTI in infants born to healthy women vaccinated during pregnancy. endstream
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Our reviews are crowdsourced directly from a community of scientists with relevant expertise. https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html. Jan. 18, 2022, 1:00 AM. As weve already established, theres nothing to indicate that there was any identified safety issue, and therefore, theres no evidence that regulators failed to share any important safety information with the public. According to Endpoints News, among the documents released, one shows a nearly $2.9 million user fee payment to FDA from Pfizer and others which show a fast track designation letter, which is not typically released, a confidential nonclinical overview for the vaccine, Pfizers request for a waiver from adding a suffix to the vaccines name, which is also not typically released, and a long list of anonymised trial subjects who didnt receive the vaccine as randomised. A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center, This article is available in both English and Espaol, No vaccine or medical product is 100% safe, but the. , or VAERS, which is an early warning system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA. hV_o0*~lH$Hk;%: /EJ 5~wRYO:l|www0jJus%..%el^0R$ a2CM 9nRPe.=I~8.3vsN#UpIcVqa`]v (7;]QIgmTv~M`=WkE2 67?iY)l3LVn$8(sXc_R (i>#$#8reCy\$h6"o#U%\5}$!~D_u#U[+Nc*-DpDB=AK2Jtin b5p)0 L6PA3muD)=#or%m={-jypzU!a:f.Pt;1+?R , have subsequently identified only a few, very rare adverse events. N Engl J Med. A group of scientists and medical researchers sued the FDA under FOIA to force release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to licensing of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. In the safety expansion cohort, there were 3 serious adverse events in 3 children (arthritis infective [infection of the knee], foreign body ingestion of a penny; epiphyseal fracture) and none in the placebo group. Beninger, Paul. The median onset of local reactions in the vaccine group was 0 (day of vaccination) to 2 days after either dose and lasted a median duration between 1 and 3 days. Because if we were aware of them at the time, we could have had an index of suspicion for them and kept an eye out for them.. No serious adverse events were considered by FDA as possibly related to vaccine. In March 2022, Pfizer announced RSVpreF received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of RSV via rigorous testing in clinical trials prior to authorization or approval, followed by continued safety monitoring once the vaccine is rolled out to the public to detect potential rare side effects. https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/about/transmission.html. Smart Grocery Shopping When You Have Diabetes, Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Dogs and Cats, Bird Flu Deaths Prompt U.S. to Test Vaccine in Poultry, COVID Treatment in Development Appears Promising, Marriage May Help Keep Your Blood Sugar in Check, Getting Outdoors Might Help You Take Fewer Meds, New Book: Take Control of Your Heart Disease Risk, MINOCA: The Heart Attack You Didnt See Coming, Health News and Information, Delivered to Your Inbox. Pfizers analysis notes that the companys safety database contains cases of adverse events regardless of causality assessment and says that numerous factors can influence whether an adverse event is reported, and that the spontaneous reporting system should be used for signal detection.. bMild: does not interfere with activity; moderate: interferes with activity; severe: prevents daily activity; Grade 4: emergency room visit or hospitalization. Women were more likely than men to report problems after vaccination, and young people were more likely than those over 65 to experience side effects. Otherwise, occurrence of severe adverse events involving system organ classes and specific preferred terms were balanced between vaccine and placebo groups. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Supported by WP Advisor. Based on data collected through August 2021, the reporting rates of either condition in the U.S. are highest in males 16 to 17 years old after the second dose (105.9 cases per million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine), followed by 12- to 15-year-old males (70.7 cases per million). However, the time it takes to process them will vary depending on the complexity of the request, as the FOIA website explains. No grade 4 local reactions were reported. In the video, Campbell himself acknowledges that he struggled to read the document. Simes, M.D., Clinical Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora. The goal of the project is to increase exposure to accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines, while decreasing the impact of misinformation. And its FREE! He also said that Woodcock was completely right to say that millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered safely. ; 1Y/%-p /=p8gcHm>=vxo4>i7}fY4tM>:WP8.=\pW'-Ide=ksD(sg"V=
L|XyZit9jf&s~ZR)NU[i(as&".7e[5+>t0.m>~be`0';awio-u? These findings should put an immediate end to the Pfizer COVID vaccines. FDA. Ultimately, the claim that the documents show the vaccine is dangerous is simply baseless, as the documents dont demonstrate any safety issues with the COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizers analysis notes that the companys safety database contains cases of adverse events regardless of causality assessment and says that numerous factors can influence whether an adverse event is reported, and that the , spontaneous reporting system should be used for signal detection.. https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/factsheet-older-adults.pdf. The analysis concludes that Pfizers post-marketing data confirms a favorable benefit: risk balance for its vaccine, and that the company will continue its monitoring to assure patient safety.. Every year we see high levels of RSV cases among babies in the U.S. with some regions reporting hospital admission rates higher than normal this year, said Eric A.F. Understanding Adverse Events and Side Effects. CDC. Some posts even seemed to suggest, on the basis of no evidence, that the FDA tried to minimize the impact of the data by choosing to release the information during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The FDAarguedthat the groups request would require releasing 80,000 pages a month, which the agency said had never happened before with any FOIA request, and was difficult if not impossible with its current staffers, who would need to go through the documents line by line and redact exempted material. The released Pfizerdocument, it should be said, reviews the adverse events in groups according to organ type, noting each time that the evidence does not suggest a new safety signal. Amongseveralothers, the list of signatories includes Idaho pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole, who has baselessly saidthat the vaccines cause cancer, and Dr. Stella Immanuel, who hasfalsely promotedhydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure and has previouslyclaimedthat some medicines are made of space alien DNA. , Theyre temporally associated, thats the reason why they were reported. 16 Mar 2022. As MedPage Today hasexplained, the FDA hasalreadyreleased summaries of the data it has reviewed, and the FOIA documents may not be material to an overall analysis of the vaccines safety and efficacy. Zach Zalewski, a regulatory strategy consultant at Avalere Health, told the outlet, Theres a risk of cherry picking and taking things out of context.. Adverse events are health problems that occur after vaccination but arent necessarily caused by the vaccine. FDA Begins Releasing Pfizer COVID Vax Documents. MedPage Today. The first pages of the document, too, explicitly address many of the limitations of adverse event reporting to help properly interpret the data limitationsthose posting alarming stories about the document appear to have ignored. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804877 Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. V-safe is a voluntary, smartphone-based system set up in 2020 specifically for monitoring reactions to COVID-19 and health effects after vaccination. a Mild: does not interfere with activity; moderate: some interference with activity; severe: prevents daily activity; Grade 4: emergency room visit or hospitalization for severe fatigue, severe headache, severe muscle pain, or severe joint pain. that the groups request would require releasing 80,000 pages a month, which the agency said had never happened before with any FOIA request, and was difficult if not impossible with its current staffers, who would need to go through the documents line by line and redact exempted material. The proportions of participants who reported at least 1 serious adverse event were 0.6% in the vaccine group and 0.5% in the placebo group. The fact that all of those reports were there is proof of nothing, it all needs to be assessed.. Through February 2021, it says, there were 42,086 reports of individuals reporting adverse events, including 1,223 deaths. Fortunately, these reactions are rare, typically occur within minutes of inoculation and can be treated. I used to be healthy, teach snowboarding and climb Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks. Serious adverse events were defined as any untoward medical occurrence that resulted in death, was life-threatening, required inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, or resulted in persistent disability/incapacity. But the appendix, Beninger said, was actually just a list of the things Pfizer was monitoring for not a list of health problems that have been observed after vaccination or that had been shown to be due to vaccination. Accessed 18 Mar 2022. After dose 1, the younger age group reported pain more frequently than the older age group (83.1% vs 71.1%); a similar pattern was observed after dose 2 (77.8% vs 66.1%). Cookies used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on CDC.gov through third party social networking and other websites. Rather than producing 500 pages a month the FDA's proposed timeline he ordered the agency to turn over 55,000 a month. b Mild: does not interfere with activity; moderate: some interference with activity; severe: prevents daily activity; Grade 4: emergency room visit or hospitalization More are joining each month with an expected total of more than additional resources by the end of June 2021. Injection site redness and swelling following either dose were reported less frequently than injection site pain. As of February 20, 2022, only BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized for use in . Some people have no side effects. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the U.K. Yellow Card Scheme. Page 6 of the document explicitly states: An accumulation of adverse event reports (AERs) does not necessarily indicate that a particular AE was caused by the drug; rather, the event may be due to an underlying disease or some other factor(s) such as past medical history or concomitant medication., The FDA release was a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the group Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency filed in September 2021, demanding the data that Pfizer submitted to the FDA as part of the license application. In Viral Video, Doctor Falsely Touts Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Cure. FactCheck.org. https://www.cdc.gov/dotw/rsv/index.html. All rights reserved. The products discussed herein may have different labeling in different countries. aMild: 0.5 to 2.0 cm; moderate: >2.0 to 7.0 cm; severe: >7.0 cm; Grade 4: necrosis (redness and swelling categories) or exfoliative dermatitis (redness category only). DAmbrosio, Amanda. The trial also assessed safety throughout the study and immunogenicity of the vaccine in pregnant individuals and their infants. The CDC and FDA vaccine safety monitoring systems, which were expanded for the COVID-19 vaccines and also include a new smartphone-based reporting tool called. 2023 EWN Media. Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparencywebsite. Accessed 18 Mar 2022. But those arent dangerous and are signs that the vaccine is The challenge is to see whether the frequency of a particular event is elevated above the background rate, which could indicate a possible problem. COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States. Pfizer & the FDA were FORCED to release this data by a federal judge. Pfizer intends to submit these results for peer-review in a scientific journal. The median onset of local reactions in the vaccine group was 1 to 2 days after either dose and lasted a median duration between 1 and 2 days. Evidence Still Lacking to Support Ivermectin as Treatment for COVID-19. FactCheck.org. The FDA did not oppose releasing the information, but denied the groups request for expedited processing, leading PHMPT to sue the agency in federal court in September, as MedPage Today has. This is a bombshell, said Childrens Health Defense (CHD) president and The posts incorrectly claim that it shows the vaccine is unsafe and is evidence that this was hidden from the public. Redness and swelling were more common after dose 2 than dose 1 or 3. These data reinforce Pfizers resolve to bring our expertise in the research and development of innovative vaccines to address critical public health needs using new approaches and technologies. endstream
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On their own, these reports dont demonstrate that the vaccine caused the adverse event and dont provide evidence that the vaccine is unsafe. As this review explains below, the cited document doesnt show known side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. More serious side effects can occur, but are rare. By signing up, you will create a Euro Weekly News account if you dont already have one. The information is still valuable because its a way of being quickly alerted to a potential safety issue with a vaccine, which can then be followed-up by government scientists. This informationincluding product informationis intended only for residents of the United States. Redness and swelling were slightly more common after dose 2. WebPfizer has also taken a multiple actionsto help alleviate the large increase of adverse eventreports. In contrast, the term side effect refers only to adverse events causally linked to the vaccine, such as an allergic reaction to a vaccine ingredient. 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