PDF: National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Statistics Report For February 2015

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http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/statisticsreport.pdf

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Statistics Report
For February 2015

10 page report

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1. $202,084,196.12 for 2014

Good thing the vaccine makers didn't have to pay that.

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2. Wow, that's a lot of compensation for these vaccines that...

never cause harm to anyone, nor lead anyone to be suspicious of vaccines...

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3. You must have loved Jim Inhofe's snowball stunt nt

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5. On the contrary, it's a stunt to try to keep vaccine injury invisible indefinitely. Sorry. (nt)

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6. have I mentioned how despicable anti-vaxxer propagandists are?

The rate of injuries is about 1 per million vaccines administered.

1/1,000,000

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8. Did you happen to miss the recent Associated Press series on the poorly publicized "vaccine court"?

Or the National Law Review article on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) on 10/13/14 written by Jenna Greene? (Note: registration required)

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/637dbaa7b993454981320907b0972cf6/ap-impact-vaccine-court-keeps-claimants-waiting

Nov. 17, 2014 article excerpt:

"The system is not working," said Richard Topping, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who defended the government against vaccine injury claims but resigned after concluding his bosses had no desire to fix the major flaws he saw. "People who need help aren't getting it."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3c4086243dab4322981817ded92cc346/feds-vows-publicize-vaccine-injury-help-program

Nov. 21, 2014 article excerpt:

Leaders of the nation's system for helping people hurt by a routine vaccination have vowed to better publicize the little-known program, while the judge who oversees the special vaccine court that handles injury claims worries that if more are filed, they will take even longer to handle than they already do.

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Few suggestions have been implemented to date from a comprehensive publicity plan the program paid $300,000 for several years ago. Less than $20,000 of the program's $6.5 million annual budget is dedicated to public outreach.

More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016110299

Of course, "direct stakeholders" are also focused on these matters in writing, too, despite being invisible to the MSM. Here's a book to consider reading. Just ignore the idiotic title probably selected by some editor or the publisher to sensationalize a serious subject. Guess what? I haven't read it myself yet but now I definitely will.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/11/the-vaccine-court-wayne-rohdethe-vaccine-courtthe-dark-truth-of-americas-vaccine-injury-compensation-program.html

November 13, 2014
by Anne Dachel

...Wayne Rohde recently finished writing the book, The Vaccine Court, an in-depth look at the vaccine injury justice system. I talked to Wayne about his book and in a series of six short videos, Wayne explains how vaccine injury claims are handled and reveals why we all need to be concerned.

That'll account for misleading numbers. Developing...

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4. I guess sometimes correlation does equal causation.

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9. What are VAERS, NVICP and NCVIA (1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act)?

https://vaers.hhs.gov/index
http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccine_Monitoring/history.html#NCVIA

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Activities/vaers.html

...Approximately 30,000 VAERS reports are filed annually, with 10-15% classified as serious (resulting in permanent disability, hospitalization, life-threatening illnesses or death).

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index

When reviewing data from VAERS, please keep in mind the following limitations:

VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected, but require a report to be filed to VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors.

"Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. The degree of underreporting varies widely. As an example, a great many of the millions of vaccinations administered each year by injection cause soreness, but relatively few of these episodes lead to a VAERS report. Physicians and patients understand that minor side effects of vaccinations often include this kind of discomfort, as well as low fevers. On the other hand, more serious and unexpected medical events are probably more likely to be reported than minor ones, especially when they occur soon after vaccination, even if they may be coincidental and related to other causes.

A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine.

MORE (other miscellaneous info):

It has been estimated by both the CDC and FDA that only 1-10% of adverse drug reactions are reported. (See Kessler: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/gold-mine-or-dumpster-dive-a-closer-look-at-adverse-event-reports/ )

Each time a consumer purchases a vaccine, a 75-cent surcharge/tax is added and then deposited into our nation's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program that was created as part of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA).

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/feb/03/bob-sears/what-cdc-statistics-say-about-vaccine-illnesses-in/

Be glad if this doesn't matter to you. Refrain from hostility toward those not so lucky.

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10. Solid research by TMR.

REFERENCES:

(1) http://www.immunize.nc.gov/PDFs/3987_Medical_Exemption.pdf
(2) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6002a1.htm#Tab6
(3) http://vaers.hhs.gov/resources/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_Following_Vaccination.pdf
(4) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6002a1.htm

ANALYSIS: http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/vaccines-myth-medical-exemption/

Comment: KNOW THE FACTS. Anyone who reads this highly informative TMR post will benefit, IMO.

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11. VAERS Reaches Half-a-Million Cases

Multiple embedded links at original.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/05/vaers-the-us-governments-human-garbage-dump-reaches-half-a-million-cases.html

May 06, 2015

VAERS... Reaches Half-a-Million Cases
By John Stone

In recent days the US Vaccine Adverse Events Reports database (VAERS), opened a quarter of a century ago, was updated to top more than half a million reports. While listing on VAERS does not mean a vaccine injury report is confirmed it is also as a passive reporting database likely to under-report by many times and may represent numerically no more than 1 or 2% of cases.

Although monitored by both the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration it is doubtful whether the database has ever led to the official acknowledgment of any single injury. It may be that in one instance a product, Wyeth’s Rotashield, was removed from the market as a result of evidence from the database. On that occasion the removal of the product was greatly to the benefit of the nation’s leading vaccine advocate, Paul Offit, who was piloting a rival product. On other occasions VAERS data may have contributed modestly to policy changes which would anyway have occurred .

A disquieting statistic is that although the schedule is dominated by infant vaccines less than a quarter of the reports are for infants. The concern must be that it is not that infants are less vulnerable to damage, but they cannot tell you what has happened, and if they fail to develop or are chronically sick this is easily passed over. Meanwhile, the schedule grows.

According to statistics I cited in 2011 in an open letter to Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, one in six US children had a developmental disability and more than half suffered from chronic ill-health. The US is also notoriously at the bottom the league in the developed world for infant mortality (presently 56th in the world) . Collectively, US government agencies (the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, the EPA) are captured and failing to protect citizens. The answer is not to accord them more powers, but to hold them finally to account.

John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

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12. PDF: 158p Annual Report to President of the US Senate, The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on 1/6/15

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/FY14%20Annual%20Judgment%20Report.pdf

LETTER

ENCLOSURES:

Report of Vaccine Court Judgements for Pain and Suffering - FY14
Report of Vaccine Court Judgements for Lost Wages - FY14
Report of Judgements entered by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims - FY14

Dollar Demand Total over $5.5B

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13. NOTE: Since originally posted the PDF has been revised: "Updated 06/01/2015" (bottom of PDF).

It was reported on 5/31 that statistics for 2014-2015 were REMOVED:

("HRSA says vaccine makers had no influence over the decision to revert to older data. The agency said it did so to synch up with a statistic the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provides for the same chart that is only current through 2013... “An internal decision was made to ensure that all data was internally consistent…and to update only when all relevant data was available,” said HRSA in a statement.)

- but now, I think, RESTORED. Wouldn't that be inspiring?