By claiming "anyone can use it" is an attempt to discredit it.
Folks, by claiming only medical professionals can submit to VAERS this user is either unwilling to look at the page or deliberately lying,
Ask yourself, folks, why this person is insisting so strongly that only medical people can submit incidents to VAERS, when the very first sentence on the reporting form says this: "The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. Anyone can submit a report to VAERS, including parents and patients." There is a second form for health professionals, but it is not - as this user is insisting - the only form.
Further down the page we are told there is no follow-up with whoever reports something, unless they left out a required field, and then it will just be to collect the missing information.
If you doubt any of this go to their site and fill out a form yourself. Just don't submit it.
Discrediting a legally required reporting system using the pretext that someone has create a log in identity on the system is disinformation.
By throwing "baby out with the bathwater" you are creating a chill that could stop health professionals reporting adverse reactions.
By completing "step 1" you are implying that a report has been submitted to VAERS and accepted, but this is not true as shown by the number of steps "every" submission must got through to be registered in the system. Just having a case ID created does not create a complete report.
By spreading this lie to people you are risking health perfessionals belief and reliance on this legally required reporting system. You could be causing some people to not report their adverse condition and get the help they may desperately need.
You are completely ignoring the fact that anyone can report to VAERS.
"The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. Anyone can submit a report to VAERS, including parents and patients." https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
And you are using this element of the process to discredit a legally required reporting system that can lead to people getting correct care so once again trying to "throw baby out with the bathwater" and attempting to discredit A legally required reporting system.
Folks, by claiming only medical professionals can submit to VAERS this user is either unwilling to look at the page or deliberately lying,
Ask yourself, folks, why this person is insisting so strongly that only medical people can submit incidents to VAERS, when the very first sentence on the reporting form says this: "The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. Anyone can submit a report to VAERS, including parents and patients." There is a second form for health professionals, but it is not - as this user is insisting - the only form.
Do your own research. Look at https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
Further down the page we are told there is no follow-up with whoever reports something, unless they left out a required field, and then it will just be to collect the missing information.
If you doubt any of this go to their site and fill out a form yourself. Just don't submit it.
Discrediting a legally required reporting system using the pretext that someone has create a log in identity on the system is disinformation.
By throwing "baby out with the bathwater" you are creating a chill that could stop health professionals reporting adverse reactions.
By completing "step 1" you are implying that a report has been submitted to VAERS and accepted, but this is not true as shown by the number of steps "every" submission must got through to be registered in the system. Just having a case ID created does not create a complete report.
By spreading this lie to people you are risking health perfessionals belief and reliance on this legally required reporting system. You could be causing some people to not report their adverse condition and get the help they may desperately need.
You are completely ignoring the fact that anyone can report to VAERS.
"The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences. Anyone can submit a report to VAERS, including parents and patients." https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
Tell the folks why are they doing this.
And you are using this element of the process to discredit a legally required reporting system that can lead to people getting correct care so once again trying to "throw baby out with the bathwater" and attempting to discredit A legally required reporting system.
You continue to talk only of the legal requirements for the healthcare community.
You continue to ignore the well-documented abuse of the side of the reporting system that is open to absolutely anyone.
You are free of course to maintain your wilful ignorance of this abuse.
For the rest of the folks who are interested in knowing how VAERS is being abused, here are a couple of descriptions of the problem:
"Anti-vaxxers show how a precious vaccine adverse event reporting database can be used to scare the public" https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/dont-fall-vaers-scare-tactic
"The public database of reported post-vaccination health issues is often misused to sow misinformation." https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt