Cries for Help

V-safe was built to hear from people after vaccination, and these participants used it for that purpose. In their own words, 3,329 people reported serious harm, suicidal thoughts, near-death events, or the death of someone they loved. Many kept writing for weeks or months. Their entries describe promised call-backs that never came, pleas for help with no reply, and repeated questions about whether anyone was reading at all. This audit cannot determine what CDC did with these reports. It can document what participants experienced: a system that asked them to report and, as they describe it, did not respond.

React19 exists so that people injured after vaccination are heard, believed, and cared for. These entries show why that work matters. They also show where the public health system’s own tools fell short of it.

Cries for Help: Injury and Death Buried in V-Safe Data: Part I ends with documentation of the participants’ documented cries for help, while Part II documents suicidal statements, reports of almost dying, and death reports.