Healthcare providers in the USA either don't know about VAERS or don't have time to complete reports

Deborah Conrad, a respected hospital physician’s assistant, blows the whistle on the VAERS scandal in the USA.

Talking to Del Bigtree on The Highwire, 17th September 2021, Deborah discusses the massive underreporting of adverse events to VAERS that’s taking place because of the huge number of healthcare providers that:

• don’t know about VAERS, and/or

• don’t realise it’s their legal duty to report possible adverse reactions, and/or

• simply don’t have time to complete the detailed reporting process.

She also reveals that her superiors have made it clear that, while they support her reporting adverse reactions in line with her legal duty, it’s her responsibility – along with everyone working in the hospital - to support the vaccination programme, as directed by the CDC.

On adverse reactions...

After rolling [the vaccines] out to the general public, the elderly and in nursing homes in the area, we would get the elderly in with Covid – it was interesting. And it was weird, it was like a week after they would get their first dose, they would test positive for Covid.

And then we would start seeing patients coming in, you know, “I got my vaccination” and a week later they’re in with pneumonia. I can say for sure in 2021, this is the year of pneumonia. Independent of Covid, I’ve never seen so many people with pneumonia, sepsis – and even in the summer, all summer, that’s what we would get in the hospitals: pneumonia, pneumonia, pneumonia.

After the vaccine rollout, I definitely saw an uptick in heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, gastrointestinal bleeds, gastrointestinal complaints, appendicitis….we even say pancreatitis, recurrent cancers…it was noticeably increased – and it wasn’t just me, everybody seemed to notice it.

“Very few providers know about VAERS”

I knew nothing about VAERS. I knew nothing about our responsibility to report, it was never even talked about when these vaccines were rolled out. I mean, you’d hear it in the news here and there, but there was never this push to make sure providers were aware that if you’re getting patients in the hospital with issues, you gotta go to this website and start reporting – that was never educated to us at all.

I went on the website and the first thing it said was: healthcare workers are required by law to report certain events to VAERS.

Specific things you’re supposed to report to VAERS after the COVID vaccine rollout:

…so that’s when I started reporting patients on my own. Very quickly that became a full-time job. I would say within 3 weeks to a month, I had already had 50 patients reported - and that was just providers that were willing to tell me about patients, who recognised that there might be a problem.

So I went back to my administration and I said, “I need help, I can’t do this all myself, it’s overwhelming. I’m on the phone with the CDC all the time, I’m on the phone with these patients – I need some more people to know about it so they can help me and we can do the right thing.” But that was met with resistance, because that’s when the vaccines were really starting to get pushed. And by me admitting that we need to report because there were some issues, it would create vaccine hesitancy amongst the healthcare workers, amongst the other staff, amongst the patients…

Well, that’s when things changed, because I wouldn’t be quiet about it.

When you roll out an emergency product that you’re gonna mass-release on the population, wouldn’t you assure that you have safety mechanisms in place? That should have been the first thing: educate your healthcare providers who are going to see these people in the hospital. Well then, how come we didn’t get educated, as healthcare providers?

I was told we were supposed to educate ourselves – it’s not their responsibility.

Our hospital talked to their risk management team and I was no longer allowed to report on any other patient than my own, that I saw. There was a warning that I must support the vaccine effort and the approach to the vaccine.

See the full interview on The Highwire website.