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Monitoring vaccine safety is an important responsibility shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
And there's no part of America's vaccine safety system more talked about than the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
VAERS is an early-warning monitoring system for vaccine safety. It allows patients, pharmaceutical companies, medical personnel and other users to report concerns about medical events that occurred after someone received a vaccination. CDC and FDA experts partner to review reports and, when appropriate, to make changes to clinical recommendations. In some cases, these changes can include pausing or stopping the administration of a vaccine.
What VAERS doesn’t do, though, is tell us whether a vaccine caused a medical issue. That requires investigation.
VAERS has a proven track record of successfully helping to identify safety issues.
What follows explains how VAERS works, how successful it's been and addresses some of the common myths about the system.
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