Thanks for doing this work. I'm from UK and our gov who put out a tender for data companies to provide system for "high numbers of adverse events expected" only provides public with individual symptoms, i.e. "cardiac" or "miscarriage" etc. on separate PDF pages with no gender, age or free text box! Seems what has been sent to VAERS originally and still being sent but now omitted is far more useful. I did email them to ask for this data to be included. I did get a reply saying they would look into it but, of course, nothing changed.
I always thought the CPC (Certified Professional Coders) days were numbered as more and more automation kicks in. It is still very challenging but in the real world surgeons mostly dictate their op reports and it's converted to text with a very similar cadence each time. While GP's use custom templates to do SOAP's (Subject, Object, Assessment, Plan). Data extraction from a physician narrative has always been a area of interest in the medical community many reason. In the perfect world I would tell Kirsch for example to stop playing grab-ass at all the feel good weekend functions and let's create a real VAERS system employing Python probability logic, your spaCy, some cool and sophisticated data visualization dashboards. I know where all the pieces are and have a great idea how they all fit together. Oh well someday... If the CDC/FDA government really cared we could have had legitimate dashboards with clean data 15 years ago. It doesn't matter how hi-tech the software system is , if the people entrusted to care for and maintain the system are a bunch of paid off lying thieves we will always get garbage in garbage out. To me it's like all the dead and injured people in vaers are crying out saying help us! We are getting pimped, raped and abused. I get very pissed off when people discount vaers. You don't even know about the uncounted deaths, the C19 jabs hiding as UNK VAX TYPE, the manufacturer/lot# mismatches, the under-coding, the bundled death reports, or just the bundled reports in general, the reports where they are saying the c19 jab was part of their concomitant meds and the injury is ascribed to flu or shingles or HPV jab the they received the following month. And don't forget the data throttling! VAERS is holding more and more claims or I should say releasing/publishing more and more claims that they have held in their possession 300+ days. The lag days between death date and received date is also astonishing. Yup this all points to malfeasance and fraud. I should know, sniffing out medical fraud is something I did for a living.
I can see why you feel this way. I am trying to stay away from joining any of the "teams" because the whole thing has become too politicized :-)
In fact, I delayed launching my Substack by a good 6-8 months because at first I was sure the kids' vaccine will not be approved in the US.
And then I delayed it some more until I was sure that no matter what happened, I will not waste my time on this. So I eventually turned my Substack into a way to learn a whole bunch of new stuff, which I did accomplish.
You don't have to spend a lot of time with VAERS to see that even the so-called vax-skeptics actually care more about either power or some kind of personal glory and they are not very keen on actually fixing anything. It is actually totally laughable, except that there are now too many non-Western countries which still diligently follow guidelines from the West.
You will find this phrase in 39 deaths in todays new drop 12/30/2022 and severely throttled reports: Narrative: Patient was not previously COVID-19 positive and did not have any predisposing factors(PMH, allergies, etc.) for experiencing an adverse drug event. The ADR did not occur at the time of the administration of the vaccine nor was there an ADR that occurred between the observation period and the date of death.
Noticed some other candidate strings hinting of purely vax while not covid:
3231 "did not have Covid"
78 "does not have Covid"
2549 "negative for Covid"
51276 "negative Covid"
8145 "Covid.{1,7}test.{1,7}negative" (close to each other in this order)
(11-11 data before CDC's censoring of foreign reports)
Thanks for doing this analysis. This is one of the major benefits of having a lot of eyes looking at the dataset.
Thanks for doing this work. I'm from UK and our gov who put out a tender for data companies to provide system for "high numbers of adverse events expected" only provides public with individual symptoms, i.e. "cardiac" or "miscarriage" etc. on separate PDF pages with no gender, age or free text box! Seems what has been sent to VAERS originally and still being sent but now omitted is far more useful. I did email them to ask for this data to be included. I did get a reply saying they would look into it but, of course, nothing changed.
You would probably be a real good developer at this discipline: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524149/
I always thought the CPC (Certified Professional Coders) days were numbered as more and more automation kicks in. It is still very challenging but in the real world surgeons mostly dictate their op reports and it's converted to text with a very similar cadence each time. While GP's use custom templates to do SOAP's (Subject, Object, Assessment, Plan). Data extraction from a physician narrative has always been a area of interest in the medical community many reason. In the perfect world I would tell Kirsch for example to stop playing grab-ass at all the feel good weekend functions and let's create a real VAERS system employing Python probability logic, your spaCy, some cool and sophisticated data visualization dashboards. I know where all the pieces are and have a great idea how they all fit together. Oh well someday... If the CDC/FDA government really cared we could have had legitimate dashboards with clean data 15 years ago. It doesn't matter how hi-tech the software system is , if the people entrusted to care for and maintain the system are a bunch of paid off lying thieves we will always get garbage in garbage out. To me it's like all the dead and injured people in vaers are crying out saying help us! We are getting pimped, raped and abused. I get very pissed off when people discount vaers. You don't even know about the uncounted deaths, the C19 jabs hiding as UNK VAX TYPE, the manufacturer/lot# mismatches, the under-coding, the bundled death reports, or just the bundled reports in general, the reports where they are saying the c19 jab was part of their concomitant meds and the injury is ascribed to flu or shingles or HPV jab the they received the following month. And don't forget the data throttling! VAERS is holding more and more claims or I should say releasing/publishing more and more claims that they have held in their possession 300+ days. The lag days between death date and received date is also astonishing. Yup this all points to malfeasance and fraud. I should know, sniffing out medical fraud is something I did for a living.
I can see why you feel this way. I am trying to stay away from joining any of the "teams" because the whole thing has become too politicized :-)
In fact, I delayed launching my Substack by a good 6-8 months because at first I was sure the kids' vaccine will not be approved in the US.
And then I delayed it some more until I was sure that no matter what happened, I will not waste my time on this. So I eventually turned my Substack into a way to learn a whole bunch of new stuff, which I did accomplish.
You don't have to spend a lot of time with VAERS to see that even the so-called vax-skeptics actually care more about either power or some kind of personal glory and they are not very keen on actually fixing anything. It is actually totally laughable, except that there are now too many non-Western countries which still diligently follow guidelines from the West.
173 new death reports dropped 12/30/2022 severely throttled. It's they are playing chess and we are playing checkers...
You will find this phrase in 39 deaths in todays new drop 12/30/2022 and severely throttled reports: Narrative: Patient was not previously COVID-19 positive and did not have any predisposing factors(PMH, allergies, etc.) for experiencing an adverse drug event. The ADR did not occur at the time of the administration of the vaccine nor was there an ADR that occurred between the observation period and the date of death.
What happens when the analysis has the 336,000+ missing ages filled in instead?
https://shorturl.at/bixOV
Answer: I have 290 reports officially marked DIED and containing 'has not tested positive for COVID' in the writeup.
Of those where the age is known (often because it is extracted from the writeup):
56 are under age 60.
187 are age 60 to 101.
1 newborn
1 teen
6 in their 20s
20 in their 30s
11 in their 40s
16 in their 50s
20 in their 60s
70 in their 70s
60 in their 80s
35 in their 70s
1 age 100
1 age 101
47 are unknown age.
1,515,406 total covid injection reports in VAERS up to 2022-12-30 (2 years and a couple weeks since the first).
I decided I ought to go ahead and do the work to answer my question.
Results are at https://thingsweirdandwonderful.com/lot_codes/z_other/2022-12-30_vaers_not_tested_covid_died_from_vax.zip
(a zipped xls file, 200 KB)