CARM database of adverse reactions to Covid vaccines
Virginia Crawford made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Virginia Crawford
Dear Ministry of Health,
Could you please provide a (clickable) link to the CARM database, relating to reported adverse side effects experienced as a result of being injected with Cominarty?
I don't mean a link to REPORT a side effect, only to PERUSE reported side effects.
I have been looking for this, but without success. Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
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Kia ora Virginia Crawford
Thank you for your request for official information received 29 March 2021
for:
Could you please provide a (clickable) link to the CARM database,
relating to reported adverse side effects experienced as a result of
being injected with Cominarty? I don't mean a link to REPORT a side
effect, only to PERUSE reported side effects.
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From: Virginia Crawford <[FOI #15018 email]>
Sent: Monday, 29 March 2021 13:03
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - CARM database of adverse reactions
to Covid vaccines
Dear Ministry of Health,
Could you please provide a (clickable) link to the CARM database, relating
to reported adverse side effects experienced as a result of being injected
with Cominarty?
I don't mean a link to REPORT a side effect, only to PERUSE reported side
effects.
I have been looking for this, but without success. Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
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Kia ora Virginia Crawford
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) on 29 March 2021 for:
“Could you please provide a (clickable) link to the CARM database,
relating to reported adverse side effects experienced as a result of being
injected with Cominarty?
I don't mean a link to REPORT a side effect, only to PERUSE reported
side effects.”
The Ministry of Health has recently added a link to the Medsafe website
which provides details including adverse events following immunisation
(AEFI):
[1]https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf...
We trust this answers your request. Under section 28(3) of the Act you
have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions made under
this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
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R McLeod left an annotation ()
The Ministry of Health, in their response to this OIA have provided a link to a report. I cannot see any link to view the actual database in the provided link, which is what was requested by Virginia Crawford.
c a left an annotation ()
I just clicked on the link provided ( https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf... ) and the last entry was for up untill the 6th of March. It is now the 5th of May. Where are the reports for the last two months? It appears to me like something is being hidden.
c a left an annotation ()
I just clicked on the medsafe website: https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf... and the last entry was for up untill the 27th of March. It is now the 5th of May. Where are the reports for the last month? It appears to me like something is being hidden.
Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
c a, many websites publish information across more than one page, generally putting those pages in the same section of the website. Often, it is possible to navigate up to the index page for a parent section by using a webpage component commonly referred to as "breadcrumbs", which often appear near the top of the page's content.
You can see the breadcrumbs just beneath the header navigation on the Medsafe website. It includes a link to the "Overview of Vaccine Reports" page, which is the parent page for the report page(s) you have viewed (I'm not sure if you added two annotations to correct a typo in the first one or if it was for some other reason): https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/vac...
This index page contains a list of links to several of these reports, the most recent of which when I am writing this annotation was published on May 5 and includes information up to April 3: https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/saf...
Medsafe appears to be continuing to publish more information here as it becomes available to them, with a lag of about a month.
c a left an annotation ()
Mark Hanna, Yes i did post a second annotation as I realised the link in the request above was outdated.
A month lag is still quite a lot considering how important this information is to people who want to give informed consent. This is even more apparent tonight with this news story: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4421....
Gloria Pillay left an annotation ()
I tried in vain to peruse the adverse reactions to Covid 19 vaccines page. From previous requests by others a link was given but it always comes up as an error on the page.Is there a direct link to the CARMS data base for this or perhaps any information anywhere else?
Virginia Crawford left an annotation ()
The link is https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/vac...
However at the moment it's offline, as is the whole of the Medsafe website. Perhaps undergoing maintenance?
Gloria Pillay left an annotation ()
Thanks to Virginia Crawford for raising the question of the CARMS database. I tried in vain to peruse the adverse reactions to Covid 19 vaccines page. From previous requests by Virginia, a link was given but it always comes up as an error on the page.Is there a direct link to the CARMS database for this or perhaps any information anywhere else regarding the adverse reactions to the Covid 19 vaccine in NZ?
Maree joan left an annotation ()
I'm sure I have seen more recent details on the CARM register. Definitely since may, and I m sure it would have been late July/August but now I can't find anyway to see it again. And it was updated weekly. It included at least 5 deaths which had notes underneath referring to the deaths. I'm not tech savvy at all but it wasn't difficult to find at the time.
Maree joan left an annotation ()
Ok, so found more recent details. On the medsafe site type in adverse reaction covid into search bar at top. You can scroll down to find weekly summaries. Today's shows up to end of August. I think somewhere there too, is a list of reported effects, ranging from mild to serious including deaths.
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Virginia Crawford left an annotation ()
I have been able to find the database, but in the vaccines section, there is no entry for a Covid vaccine(s). Could you please correct this?
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