15.1 VAERS Signal for Immune Suppression, Thrombocytopenia and Neurodegeneration
All of the tabulations on the number of reports for a specific condition mentioned in this subsection are based on a probe of the VAERS database online tool, http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html, on November 29, 2021 and include all reports for any COVID-19 vaccine but restricted to the US population.
Over the 31-year history of VAERS, there were a total of 9,153 deaths reported in association with any vaccine, and 7,114 (78%) of those deaths were linked to COVID-19 vaccines. Importantly, only 14% of VAERS-reported deaths as of June 2021 could have vaccination ruled out as a cause [210]. This strongly suggests that these unprecedented vaccines exhibit unusual mechanisms of toxicity that go well beyond what is seen with more traditional vaccines.
A shocking 96% of all cases linking Bell’s palsy to any vaccine since 1990 were linked to COVID-19 vaccines (3,197 out of 3,331 cases). There were 760 reports of Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS) for COVD-19 vaccines. Over 100 cases of optic neuritis or optic neuropathy were listed. A total of 8,298 reports linked migraine headache to COVID-19. There were 52 cases of Herpes zoster oticus linked to COVID-19 vaccines. This is basically a case of herpes affecting the cranial nerves near the ears. Hearing loss is a characteristic symptom of Herpes zoster oticus, and it can become permanent [211,212]. As of November 19, 2021, there were 12,204 cases where ”tinnitus” was mentioned. Deafness is of course much more serious and therefore less common, and yet it also has a striking number of hits, coming in at 2,662 cases.
There were 653 VAERS reports linking the COVID-19 vaccines to thrombocytopenia. This is to be compared with 774 cases reported for all the other vaccines over the 31-year period from 1990 to 2021.
The VAERS database includes many terms related to liver dysfunction, and there were around 2,000 reports in VAERS for various liver-related terms linked to COVID-19 vaccines, such as hepatomegaly (73 cases), hepatic steatosis (105 cases) hepatic enzyme increased (338 cases), liver disorder (71 cases), liver injury (44 cases), hepatic pain (91 cases) and hepatitis (62 cases).
There were 4,650 cases with dysphagia, 1,697 cases of dysphonia, and 37,132 cases of dyspnea in reaction to COVID vaccines. As reviewed previously in this paper, a likely cause is vagus nerve damage due to inflammation induced by exposure to exosomes containing the spike protein and the associated microRNAs. In addition, there were 13,789 reports of syncope. Vasovagal syncope is the most common type of syncope among all age groups [213]. 67,682 cases of nausea and 26,630 cases of vomiting may reflect damage to vagal neurocircuits that play a central role in inducing nausea and vomiting in response to various insults [214].
Table 1. Number of events in the VAERS database from 1990 to December 12, 2021, where several terms indicating cancer occurred in association with COVID-19 vaccines or with all other vaccines, along with the ratio between the two counts. Counts were restricted to data from the United States. Note that counts for all the other vaccines are totals for 31 years, whereas the COVID-19 counts are for a single class of vaccines over less than one year.