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CDC WONDER: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

Metadata Updated: July 26, 2023

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) online database on CDC WONDER provides counts and percentages of adverse event case reports after vaccination, by symptom, vaccine product, manufacturer, onset interval, outcome category, year and month vaccinated, year and month reported, age, sex and state / territory. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a cooperative program for vaccine safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of US licensed vaccines. Data are from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)/ Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date July 26, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date July 26, 2023
Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
Maintainer
Identifier 2761a3aa-c892-4e95-bece-7902cff70133
Data First Published 2012-05-30
Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
Category State
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:20
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/vaers.html
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Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system-vaers
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Program Code 009:011
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9575ad0803ef52ffc5f169f4254e98d5b58aa006
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1990-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2010-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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