OK, so people keep posting these inflated covid-19 vaccine death counts on Facebook, and tonight I found out the source is openvaers.com. It's showing, at this moment, 11,940 deaths from covid-19 vaccines. Meanwhile a search at the CDC shows 4605. I downloaded the "All Years Data" zipfile, 320.27 MB, unzipped it, and after some trial-and-error, got the same 4605 number. I also noticed some files prefixed by NonDomestic, added those into the mix, and got 6317. Still nowhere close to 11,940. Here's my current Makefile:
SHELL := /bin/bash VAERSDOWNLOAD := $(HOME)/Downloads/AllVAERSDataCSVS YEARS := 202* NONDOMESTIC := $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/NonDomesticVAERS VAXDBS := $(wildcard $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/$(YEARS)*VAX.csv) $(NONDOMESTIC)VAX.csv DEATHDBS := $(wildcard $(VAERSDOWNLOAD)/$(YEARS)*SYMPTOMS.csv) \ $(NONDOMESTIC)SYMPTOMS.csv export all: covid_deaths env: $@ $(VAERSDOWNLOAD): $(VAERSDOWNLOAD).zip mkdir $@ cd $@ unzip $< vaxes.txt: $(VAXDBS) Makefile grep -ah COVID19 $(VAXDBS) | cut -d, -f1 | sort > $@ deaths.txt: $(DEATHDBS) Makefile grep -ah ,Death, $(DEATHDBS) | cut -d, -f1 | sort > $@ covid_deaths: vaxes.txt deaths.txt comm -1 -2 $+ | wc
Anybody know the folks behind openvaers? I'd like to know their methodology.
last updated 2021-08-04 00:52:18. served from tektonic.jcomeau.com