key: cord-0928794-sbvwystp
authors: Finsterer, Josef
title: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Could Miss or Misinterpret Neurological Side Effects of COVID‐19 Vaccinations
date: 2022-04-27
journal: Ann Neurol
DOI: 10.1002/ana.26369
sha: d3fd2a94b5094248966012b3523df7155bb97027
doc_id: 928794
cord_uid: sbvwystp

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care providers and patients cannot be definitively ruled out. False registrations cannot reasonably be ruled out, although knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of US law and punishable by a fine or imprisonment.

It is unclear whether complications reported in the literature, such as small fiber neuropathy, rhabdomyolysis, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, cerebral vasculitis, hypophysitis, Parsonage-Turner syndrome, or Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, have been reported to VAERS and what category of neurological side effects these have been assigned. 2 We disagree that the beneficial effects of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines outweigh the rare side effects. Every patient with a serious, disabling, or fatal side effect is one too many. Efforts should be made to make anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines safer.

Nothing to report.

All data are available from the corresponding author.

Neurology & Neurophysiology Center, Vienna, Austria

Neurological events reported after COVID-19 vaccines: an analysis of VAERS