Thread by @jhaskinscabrera

This Buzzfeed article from August is interesting because it promises "an intense vaccine safety monitoring effort"

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buzzfeednews.com/article/danver…

"One important step is letting people know right now that the FDA and CDC are planning an intense vaccine safety monitoring effort, said Vanderbilt University’s Kathryn Edwards, scientific director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program.

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"Her program will be headquarters for a consortium with six other schools running a 24-hour hotline for doctors with any safety questions once a coronavirus vaccine is available.

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"At the CDC’s vaccine meeting, officials described a number of FDA, CDC, and Defense Department programs to watch for any signs of adverse events in vaccines, ranging from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), created in 1986,

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"which tallies reports from manufacturers, to the PRISM system, stood up by Lurie and other officials in the H1N1 crisis, which collects rapid reports of adverse vaccine events from Medicare and insurers, feeding them directly to federal overseers."

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But now VAERS is being described by public health officials as unreliable

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wtvy.com/2021/03/01/vae…

... and PRISM has not been used to track reactions to the COVID vaccines

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nbcnews.com/health/health-…