Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) continues to relentlessly misrepresent the nature of data collected federally as part of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
The information cataloged as part of that federal effort does not inherently demonstrate any substantive connection between the adverse events that are reported and vaccines to which they’re tied. In truth, the data represents a proactive collection of information on potentially concerning health events that happen in some proximity to a vaccination. The work to see whether there was any connection comes after.
And yet, during a hearing in Congress not long before the present break from work in D.C. on which members have gone, Greene expanded on her previous rhetoric, referring to reports of death made through the VAERS system as though conclusively revealing. Anyone can make a VAERS report! “Let’s compare the VAERS COVID and flu vaccine reported deaths by days to the onset of all ages,” Greene said, jumbling her description of the data. “Days of onset? COVID vaccine, rapidly reported that death happens immediately after the vaccine. Flu vaccine. Much lower rate.”
“If anyone wants to understand what this has done to women,” Greene added, interjecting with remarks to a witness. “There’s been serious reports of changes in women’s menstrual cycle and hemorrhages.” She also pointed to higher reports of miscarriages, alleging a connection to the vaccines developed for use against COVID-19. It remains flatly incorrect that there’s been any conclusive showing that higher reports of some of these serious issues through VAERS reflect any actually substantive connection to COVID-19 vaccines.
Greene also tied ostensibly sudden deaths that were the subjects of news reports to her broadsides against the COVID-19 shots, seemingly without any actual evidence for a link. Greene finished her rambling monologue with a quote from conspiracy theorist Edward Dowd discussing ostensibly tens of thousands of “excess deaths” that she was clearly seeking to tie to the COVID-19 vaccinations.
