"Kennedy has also called for overhauling the current safety monitoring system for vaccine injury data collection, known as Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, claiming that it suppresses information about the true rate of vaccine side effects. He has also proposed changes to the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that could make it easier for people to sue for adverse events that haven't been proven to be associated with vaccines."
"Jointly managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, VAERS was established in 1990 as a way to detect potential safety issues with vaccines after their approval. Anyone, including health care providers and members of the public, can submit an adverse reaction report to the database. Because these claims are not verified, VAERS data alone can't be used to determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event."
HHS is developing a generative AI tool to detect patterns in data reported to the national vaccine monitoring database and to generate hypotheses about vaccine adverse effects. The tool remains undeployed and has been in development since late 2023. Experts worry predictions could be used politically by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-standing vaccine critic who has removed several childhood vaccines from recommended schedules. Kennedy has called for overhauling VAERS and proposed changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. VAERS is jointly managed by CDC and FDA, accepts unverified public reports, and cannot by itself determine causality.
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