{"id":9253,"date":"2025-04-16T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:53:29","slug":"rfk-jr-plans-changes-to-vaccine-injury-reporting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/rfk-jr-plans-changes-to-vaccine-injury-reporting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. plans changes to vaccine injury reporting system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-remarks-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system-vaers-changes-indiana-maha\/\">STAT<\/a> Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he plans to roll out changes to the vaccine injury monitoring system that would automate and increase data collection as well as look for negative impacts of the shots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reforming the current Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has long been part of Kennedy\u2019s agenda to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/01\/28\/rfk-jr-vaccines-kennedy-confirmation-hearing-vaccination-policy-hhs-secretary\/\">raise questions about the safety of immunizations<\/a>\u00a0that are currently in use. While the general idea of improving the system is uncontroversial, Kennedy has exaggerated the extent to which side effects of vaccinations go unrecorded, according to researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s outrageous that we don\u2019t have a surveillance system that functions,\u201d he said at a Make America Healthy Again event in Indiana, noting that the agency would add datasets to study the effects of vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-remarks-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system-vaers-changes-indiana-maha\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he plans to roll out changes to the vaccine injury monitoring system that would automate and increase data collection as well as look for negative impacts of the shots.&nbsp; Reforming the current Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has long been part of Kennedy\u2019s agenda to\u00a0raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9254,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}