The CDC was developing an electronic support system to go along with VAERS. They developed criteria for defining an AE and would then monitor patients…
who received a V for 30 days for any possible AEs.
The study found "an average of 1.3 events per clinician, per month."
The AE data was presented at the 2009 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Conference) conference.
This is important because it PROVES leaders in the informatics field knew this was an issue, and not a small one.
After these results, the project was abandoned by the CDC.
"Unfortunately, there was never an opportunity to perform system performance assessments because the necessary CDC contacts were no longer available and the CDC consultants responsible for receiving data were no longer responsive to our multiple requests to proceed…
with testing and evaluation."
In 2010, there were 208,807 practicing primary care physicians in the US.
If the project's data is correct that means we can project 271,449 adverse events each month.
My daughter had a reaction to HIB or Pneumococcal at age 7 months. She had what I would call a "change in affect". She was smiling, babbling and engaged before those shots and for 48 hours after she would not smile, she did not babble, she stared off into space.
She is now 15 and I have been researching vaccines for the last 16 years. I would encourage you to research vaccines just as thoroughly as you would anything else. If you are unsure, research until you are sure. Do not make a decision until you can do so with confidence.
You can always get a vaccine later but you can never take it back. There are a few things you should know to start:
1. The FDA says a person can handle 4-5 micrograms of aluminum per kilo of body weight per day. A 12 lb baby can handle about 27 micrograms of aluminum.