CDC Wonder VAERS search UI is comically dysfunctional

And to make matters worse, the vaccine pushers are generally too stupid to even notice their mistakes

Another vaccine pusher made an idiotic dare on Twitter recently

Link to tweet

At first I was not even sure how he managed to generate these numbers.

For example, I looked up the search demo I built for serious foreign VAERS reports and found that lot FN7934 has 27 reports by Nov 2022¹.

There were in fact two deaths in these 27 reports.

And one of those deaths had same day symptom onset

And the other death had symptom onset after 10 days (and death on the same day as symptom onset), and it is possible the patient was healthy (because no medical history was reported)

Doing the same search for US reports only

By default, CDC WONDER only searches US reports, as you can see below.

So if I did the following search:

I get the following results (matches what Matt Timberlake found)

Expanding the search to all locations

But when I change the location to All locations:

we see many more adverse events

Why don’t vaccine pushers complain about the CDC WONDER search tool?

In a previous article I wrote this:

Skillset deficit 4: SBM writers do not seem to understand the importance of user interface design. Maybe they also preferred to use MSN Search over Google in the early 2000s?

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If you compare the time it takes to do your search on CDC Wonder and then compare it with the instant results you get in the tool I built using Algolia, you can see very clearly that CDC is still stuck in the Web 1.0 era of a thousand checkboxes and multiple “Send” buttons in the same form :-)

Does the CDC feel even the slightest bit ashamed that their search tool is so bad that the vaccine pushers - who often have a background in medicine² - cannot even use it properly?

And if they don’t have the talent in-house³, why doesn’t the CDC ask Algolia to create VAERS 2.0?

1. In other words, this is based on a SUBSET of the full data. I haven’t included non-serious AEs, reports filed after Nov 2022 for foreign VAERS, and I haven’t included US VAERS reports at all.

2. I know some people think medical professionals are more tech challenged than laypeople, but the CDC WONDER search tool targets medical professionals.

In fact, the medical professionals NEVER miss an opportunity to tell the laypeople that they shouldn’t really be using VAERS “without understanding it”.

But they don’t want to apply the same rule to using the CDC WONDER Search tool!

3. And I don’t mean this as any kind of insult. A lot of software companies use Algolia to provide search for their documentation. That isn’t because those companies don’t have good developers.

Rather, search is genuinely a very hard feature to implement, and there is no realistic way that an in-house team can replicate all the functionality that Algolia has assiduously built over a decade mainly because they focused single-handedly on this one problem.

By the way, I am not affiliated with Algolia in any way, but I have watched their evolution from a distance over many years, and I know that their search product is easily best-in-class.