Get the facts: How online info is providing misleading accounts about COVID-19 vaccine safety - WLWT Cincinnati

Misleading information online is suggesting health data on a federal website means COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Food and Drug Administration use a monitoring system to detect possible safety issues in vaccines: It's called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS.

But our partners at FactCheck.org found those reports are being used improperly on social media and websites by people who are using raw data — in other words, incomplete information — to claim the vaccines are not safe.

A small number of people who've received a COVID-19 vaccine have reported a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis.