Far More Pulmonary Embolisms in VAERS From Covid Vaccines Than Others Are Reporting

The numbers looked low to me regarding pulmonary embolisms on this page ...

FDA acknowledges that pulmonary embolism generated a safety signal

So I did some data mining and found a much larger number of instances of pulmonary embolisms in VAERS through 2022, using several methods. The idea was to only include each report if it is certain.

Goal: Uncriticizable. Rock. Solid.

Results

Download: 4.3 MB csv in zip file

Also contains the 4,388 candidates I disqualified in a column using true or false.

Excerpts are separated by |...| and symptom file column entries by _|_

To look at full details on any, you can replace the ID at the end in a browser like so: https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?WAYBACKHISTORY=ON&IDNUMBER=1149614

Methods

Basically …

• Append all symptoms file column entries to the writeups for inclusion in search.

• Any of just those from symptoms file column entries containing ‘Pulmonary embolism’ were marked valid automatically.

• A search in writeups for the strings ‘pulmon’ (or lung) with ‘embol’ (or clot or thromb) in any order, capturing those instances with surrounding context of up to 50 characters on either side for easier screening.

• Manually marking as false those involving a history of PE or where pulmonary embolism is strongly suspected but not yet verified. A very time-consuming process that took weeks, the least joy of any time in my life.

• Even marking false those given anticoagulant therapy (among safety signals at CDC Finally Released Its VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA) if the report lacked explicit certainty of embolism when (as) written.

• During the process, any that were unclear were marked and vetted later instead by using the entire writeup content (SYMPTOM_TEXT field).

Important note: It became clear to me that everyone in the medical field and even many people filing reports on their own tend to be cognizant of this danger of pulmonary embolism clots from the vaccines as there were a large number of reports I had to mark false because it was highly suspected but the lab results had not been received yet for example.

Ways to look for more to be screened and added

Consider including ‘Infarction’. These results did not include it. “Obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or region of tissue, typically by a thrombus or embolus, causing local death of the tissue.”

What I did include but worth mentioning again, lung and clot, since the words pulmonary and embolism may not be present.

Also included, search using pulmon and thromb as thrombus is the medical term for clot. The other case is that it may have formed there, in the lung veins, rather than migrated there. The term pulmonary embolism would be thrombus/clot that formed elsewhere but moved to the lungs. However there were only 11 with thromb that were not already caught.

Abbreviations: PE (4544), COPD (14564) (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), PTE (108) (pulmonary endarterectomy (215)). These can be found with regular expressions like \bpe\b, those are word boundaries, and use ignorecase of course. (I just lowercase everything first).

Things like thrombectomy (791) (with pulmonary), pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (43) (opening of vein that was blocked).

Use the names of drugs that treat it. Perhaps including apixaban (5625) as eliquis (10542), heparin (4498), warfarin (3737), rivaroxaban (2858), edoxaban (458), dabigatran (431), marevan (144).

Related terms such as ground class in computed tomography (CT) imaging of the lungs. “by P Thoma · 2009 · Cited by 26 — There is a causal link between acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and the occurrence of ground-glass opacity (GGO).“ I did not do that. (816 reports if one looks for both simultaneously)

False positives can be screened out in part by looking for symptoms stated as normal in the symptoms file like ‘Pulmonary physical examination normal’

These are 126 other entries in the symptoms file with ‘pulmon’:

Acute pulmonary oedema .. Allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis .. Angiogram pulmonary .. Angiogram pulmonary abnormal .. Anomalous pulmonary venous connection .. Aorticopulmonary septal defect .. Asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome .. Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis .. Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis allergic .. Bronchopulmonary disease .. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia .. Carcinoid tumour pulmonary .. Cardiopulmonary bypass .. Cardiopulmonary exercise test .. Cardiopulmonary exercise test abnormal .. Cardiopulmonary failure .. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .. Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema .. Congenital pulmonary artery anomaly .. Congenital pulmonary hypertension .. Congenital pulmonary valve disorder .. Cor pulmonale .. Cor pulmonale acute .. Cor pulmonale chronic .. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis .. Hantavirus pulmonary infection .. Hepatopulmonary syndrome .. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis .. Infective pulmonary exacerbation of cystic fibrosis .. Intrapulmonary lymphadenopathy .. Newborn persistent pulmonary hypertension .. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema .. Post procedural pulmonary embolism .. Pulmonary air leakage .. Pulmonary alveolar haemorrhage .. Pulmonary amyloidosis .. Pulmonary angioplasty .. Pulmonary arterial hypertension .. Pulmonary arterial pressure .. Pulmonary arterial pressure abnormal .. Pulmonary arterial pressure increased .. Pulmonary arterial wedge pressure .. Pulmonary arterial wedge pressure decreased .. Pulmonary arterial wedge pressure increased .. Pulmonary arteriopathy .. Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula .. Pulmonary artery aneurysm .. Pulmonary artery atresia .. Pulmonary artery compression .. Pulmonary artery dilatation .. Pulmonary artery occlusion .. Pulmonary artery stenosis .. Pulmonary artery stenosis congenital .. Pulmonary artery thrombosis .. Pulmonary artery wall hypertrophy .. Pulmonary blastomycosis .. Pulmonary calcification .. Pulmonary cavitation .. Pulmonary congestion .. Pulmonary contusion .. Pulmonary embolism .. Pulmonary endarterectomy .. Pulmonary eosinophilia .. Pulmonary fibrosis .. Pulmonary function challenge test .. Pulmonary function challenge test abnormal .. Pulmonary function test .. Pulmonary function test abnormal .. Pulmonary function test decreased .. Pulmonary granuloma .. Pulmonary haematoma .. Pulmonary haemorrhage .. Pulmonary haemosiderosis .. Pulmonary hilar enlargement .. Pulmonary hilum mass .. Pulmonary hypertension .. Pulmonary hypertensive crisis .. Pulmonary hypoperfusion .. Pulmonary hypoplasia .. Pulmonary imaging procedure .. Pulmonary imaging procedure abnormal .. Pulmonary infarction .. Pulmonary interstitial emphysema syndrome .. Pulmonary malformation .. Pulmonary mass .. Pulmonary microemboli .. Pulmonary mycosis .. Pulmonary necrosis .. Pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia .. Pulmonary oedema .. Pulmonary ossification .. Pulmonary pain .. Pulmonary physical examination .. Pulmonary physical examination abnormal .. Pulmonary pneumatocele .. Pulmonary renal syndrome .. Pulmonary resection .. Pulmonary sarcoidosis .. Pulmonary sensitisation .. Pulmonary sepsis .. Pulmonary septal thickening .. Pulmonary sequestration .. Pulmonary thrombosis .. Pulmonary toxicity .. Pulmonary tuberculoma .. Pulmonary tuberculosis .. Pulmonary valve disease .. Pulmonary valve incompetence .. Pulmonary valve replacement .. Pulmonary valve stenosis .. Pulmonary valve stenosis congenital .. Pulmonary valve thickening .. Pulmonary vascular disorder .. Pulmonary vascular resistance abnormality .. Pulmonary vasculitis .. Pulmonary vein occlusion .. Pulmonary vein stenosis .. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease .. Pulmonary venous hypertension .. Pulmonary venous thrombosis .. Restrictive pulmonary disease .. Septic pulmonary embolism .. Systemic sclerosis pulmonary .. Vascular resistance pulmonary .. Vascular resistance pulmonary decreased .. Vascular resistance pulmonary increased

While I’m not a doctor, here’s a list of 37 of those above I decided perhaps more likely to find other cases more concentrated:

Angiogram pulmonary .. Angiogram pulmonary abnormal .. Anomalous pulmonary venous connection .. Aorticopulmonary septal defect .. Bronchopulmonary disease .. Cardiopulmonary bypass .. Cardiopulmonary exercise test abnormal .. Cardiopulmonary failure .. Cor pulmonale .. Cor pulmonale acute .. Post procedural pulmonary embolism .. Pulmonary arterial pressure abnormal .. Pulmonary arterial pressure increased .. Pulmonary arterial wedge pressure increased .. Pulmonary arteriopathy .. Pulmonary artery aneurysm .. Pulmonary artery compression .. Pulmonary artery occlusion .. Pulmonary artery thrombosis .. Pulmonary embolism .. Pulmonary function challenge test .. Pulmonary function challenge test abnormal .. Pulmonary function test .. Pulmonary function test abnormal .. Pulmonary function test decreased .. Pulmonary imaging procedure abnormal .. Pulmonary infarction .. Pulmonary microemboli .. Pulmonary physical examination abnormal .. Pulmonary thrombosis .. Pulmonary vascular disorder .. Pulmonary vascular resistance abnormality .. Pulmonary vein occlusion .. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease .. Pulmonary venous thrombosis .. Vascular resistance pulmonary .. Vascular resistance pulmonary increased

The lab_data field can be useful, as for example pointed out here by Dr. Jessica Rose with Matthew Crawford and Liz Willner of OpenVaers, reposted by the Eagle, Albert Benevides of VaersAware.com:

And some false positives as pre-existing might be screened out using the history field.

Incidentally, it’s no wonder I’m feeling down, I spent the last 17 days vetting 4,976 reports that were not officially tagged as "Pulmonary embolism", finding only 408 (8%) additional and yet knowing there are more.

By utilizing some of the additional methods above, more would be found.

Full disclosure: I deliberately left a single somewhat vague report in there to see if the seeing-to-it-you-are-fkt-checkers will pounce on it. It’s a trap, they can provide us with free advertising.

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