Voluntary reporting
People who submit may differ from people who do not. Attention, access, beliefs, and severity can all affect reporting.
DEFINITIONS BEFORE DECLARATIONS
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GigglesVAERified is designed for signal detection and question formation. The methodology is built to resist two opposite errors: dismissing every report and treating every report as proof.
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WHAT A REPORT MEANS
Observed after ≠ caused by.
A report means a submitter states that a health event occurred after a named product, procedure, or exposure. It is an observation stored in a consistent format. It becomes more informative when timing, clinical impact, symptom group, product, and recurring patterns can be compared—but causal attribution requires more evidence.
TERMHOW THIS SITE USES IT
Unique report
One structured community event with a unique public reference. Follow-ups and suspected duplicates must not become additional event counts.
Source
Community submissions and official VAERS records are separate data sources. They are never silently blended.
Verification tier
Describes whether an official ID or supporting documentation exists. Verification confirms the record—not causation.
Serious
Emergency-department care, hospitalization, life-threatening event, persistent disability, birth defect, or death, as selected by the submitter.
PRR
Proportional Reporting Ratio: the share of an event among a selected vaccine technology divided by its share among comparison technologies. It measures disproportional reporting, not incidence.
Lot cluster
At least three public-consent reports naming the same product and lot. Individual lot entries are withheld.
NON-NEGOTIABLE LIMITATIONS
What the numbers cannot do.
No verified denominator
The registry does not know how many people received each product or exposure, so it cannot calculate incidence on its own.
No control group
A raw count does not show whether an outcome occurred more often than its expected background rate.
Variable confirmation
Some reports were evaluated by clinicians; others were not. Neither status by itself proves or disproves causation.
Duplicates and errors
Good-faith mistakes, duplicate submissions, missing fields, and intentional falsehoods remain possible.
Temporal association
An event after an exposure is worth recording, but sequence alone does not prove the exposure caused the event.
DATA PATH
From intake to evidence board.
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Validate
Required fields, controlled vaccine categories, product technology, timing, length limits, dual attestation, and a spam trap are checked.
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Separate
Person, vaccine, event, documentation, and private narrative are distinct fields. Official-source data remain separate from community reports.
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Aggregate
Charts count unique public-consent events. Lot cells remain hidden below three matching reports. Filters recompute every result.
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Test disproportionality
PRR appears only with adequate selected and comparator counts. It compares reporting proportions—not vaccinated with unvaccinated incidence.
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Interrogate, don’t declare
Signals justify case review and better studies. Denominators, background rates, clinical adjudication, and independent data are required for causal claims.
For a medical emergency, contact emergency services. For individual medical decisions, contact a qualified clinician. Submitting here does not notify a treating clinician, manufacturer, insurer, HHS, CDC, FDA, or any official reporting system.
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