A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccines Based on over 580,000 Cases from the Vaccination Adverse Event Reporting System.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic is being battled via the largest vaccination campaign in history, with more than eight billion doses administered thus far. Therefore, discussions about potentially adverse reactions, and broader safety concerns, are critical. The U.S. Vaccination Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has recorded vaccination side effects for over 30 years. About 580,000 events have been filed for COVID-19 thus far, primarily for the Johnson & Johnson (New Jersey, USA), Pfizer/BioNTech (Mainz, Germany), and Moderna (Cambridge, USA) vaccines. Using available databases, we evaluated these three vaccines in terms of the occurrence of four generally-noticed adverse reactions-namely, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome (a severe paralytic neuropathy), myocarditis, an

SUBMITTER: Gallo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8950485 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature