The United States Federal Government Department of Health and Human Services operates the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. This is a voluntary reporting system for vaccine adverse events. It has been estimated that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported (PDF).
This is a very simple tool written in Kotlin that will correlate the VAERS ID for COVID19 vaccinations in the Vaccination dataset with the VAERS ID in the adverse events dataset and perform some simple aggregations on different adverse events.
Future developments may produce some tabular output.
Sample output from data 2020 through May 14, 2021:
******* All COVID19 Vaccine Adverse Events Reported *******
Total: 192,588
Deaths: 3,919
Non-fatal Injuries: 188,669
Hospitalization Required: 11,550
ER Visit Required: 37
Life Threatening Injury: 3,541
******* Q1 2021 COVID19 Vaccine Adverse Events Reported *******
Total: 146,005
Deaths: 2,420
Non-fatal Injuries: 143,585
Hospitalization Required: 6,627
ER Visit Required: 19
Life Threatening Injury: 1,944
******* Q1 2020 All Vaccine Adverse Events Reported *******
Total: 8,300
Deaths: 33
Non-fatal Injuries: 8,267
Hospitalization Required: 379
ER Visit Required: 43
Life Threatening Injury: 55
Download the VAERS DATA and VAERS Vaccine files from VAERS Datasets
Save the datasets using the downloaded filename into src/main/resources/datasets.
Save them as VAERSData.csv and VAERSVAX.csv. Combine 2020 and 2021 data
by if you like. Remember to strip the headers before appending the
data.
These cannot be downloaded by machine because of the CAPTCHA. Drat!
The VaxType enum may be incomplete. If so, just add the enum exposed in the parse exception and rebuild. If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Build and run the jar file:
mvn compile assembly:single
java -jar target/vaers-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar