Veins can be categorized as deep or superficial, and their job is to return blood to the heart (while the arteries direct blood from the heart and out to the body tissues). But one adverse effect of vaccination is the formation of blood clots within veins. Using medical terms, a clot is referred to as a “thrombosis.”
If the flu shots of 5 seasons are added together so that the total number of flu shots matched the total number of COVID shots by March 2023, then reports of clots can be directly compared. For the 670.5 million doses of flu shot given in flu seasons between 2009 and 2014, there were 6 adverse event reports to VAERS for vein clots:
With 6 total reports out of 670.5 million total flu shot doses, the reporting rate for vein clots was 0.009 per million doses. But let’s check to see how the COVID shot compares to the flu shot regarding the risk of vein clots:
With 3,492 total reports out of 672.6 million total COVID shot doses, the reporting rate for vein clots was 5.19 per million doses — 580 times higher than the reporting rate for flu shots.
In another report, it was found that 571 times as many heart attacks (“acute myocardial infarction”) were reported with COVID shots as compared to flu shots. The reporting differential of 580 times as many reports of vein clots reinforces the findings from heart attacks that the COVID shots really do increase the risk of clotting — by a lot.
Evidence suggests that COVID shots should be immediately pulled from the market, due to their high propensity to induce clotting and to then lead to heart attacks and other serious complications.
A 580-fold difference is so large that it is impossible to “explain away” by positing that, during COVID, there was a higher “tendency to report” adverse events to the VAERS system. Even if you assume a baseline of just 1% capture of underlying events before COVID — and 72% capture* during COVID — you cannot close the gap.
In other words, even assuming people had become 72 times more likely to report adverse events, the relative risk from COVID shots would still continue to be 8 times more dangerous than flu shots with respect to cardiovascular events.
*The highest capture of underlying events will be expected to coincide with the capture rate for events that are 1) extremely adverse, and 2) obviously related to vaccine. With “paralyzing polio” after polio vaccine, both boxes are checked. Passive surveillance was capable of capturing 72% of the underlying paralyzing polio cases.
Reference
[Historic flu shot uptake levels] — CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-supply-historical.htm
[MedAlerts VAERS searching tool] — MedAlerts. https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php
[72% as the theoretic maximum amount of capture in passive surveillance of vaccine-associated background events (extremely adverse outcome; extremely related to the vaccine)] — Rosenthal S, Chen R. The reporting sensitivities of two passive surveillance systems for vaccine adverse events. Am J Public Health. 1995 Dec;85(12):1706-9. doi: 10.2105/ajph.85.12.1706. PMID: 7503351; PMCID: PMC1615747. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1615747/pdf/amjph00450-0108.pdf
