2021-08-04-0444Z


OK, so people keep posting these inflated covid-19 vaccine death counts on Facebook, and tonight I found out the source is openvaers.com. It's showing, at this moment, 11,940 deaths from covid-19 vaccines. Meanwhile a search at the CDC shows 4605. I downloaded the "All Years Data" zipfile, 320.27 MB, unzipped it, and after some trial-and-error, got the same 4605 number. I also noticed some files prefixed by NonDomestic, added those into the mix, and got 6317. Still nowhere close to 11,940. Here's my current Makefile:

SHELL := /bin/bash
VAERSDOWNLOAD := $(HOME)/Downloads/AllVAERSDataCSVS
YEARS := 202*
NONDOMESTIC := $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/NonDomesticVAERS
VAXDBS := $(wildcard $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/$(YEARS)*VAX.csv) $(NONDOMESTIC)VAX.csv
DEATHDBS := $(wildcard $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/$(YEARS)*SYMPTOMS.csv) \
	 $(NONDOMESTIC)SYMPTOMS.csv
export
all: covid_deaths
env:
	$@
$(VAERSDOWNLOAD): $(VAERSDOWNLOAD).zip
	mkdir $@
	cd $@
	unzip $<
vaxes.txt: $(VAXDBS) Makefile
	grep -ah COVID19 $(VAXDBS) | cut -d, -f1 | sort > $@
deaths.txt: $(DEATHDBS) Makefile
	grep -ah ,Death, $(DEATHDBS) | cut -d, -f1 | sort > $@
covid_deaths: vaxes.txt deaths.txt
	comm -1 -2 $+ | wc

Anybody know the folks behind openvaers? I'd like to know their methodology.

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