Western Australia accidentally conducted one of the world’s largest real-world vaccine safety experiments.
From April 2020 until March 2022, Western Australian was isolated from the rest of Australia and the world. Its borders were closed, and for almost two years there was virtually no community transmission of COVID-19.
That makes Western Australia’s data unique.
Across 2020 and 2021, a population of around 2.7 million people recorded just 1,223 COVID-19 cases. Some of which were classified as ‘historical cases’, and only around 11% were acquired locally. Most cases were linked to international arrivals, known contacts, or existing cases/clusters.
By the end of 2021, almost 4.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered in the state.
According to the Western Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance Annual Report 2021, the reported adverse event rate for all non-COVID vaccines was 11.1 per 100,000 doses.
For COVID-19 vaccines, it was 264.1 per 100,000 doses.
That is a reported adverse event rate per dose approximately 23.8 times higher than for all other vaccines combined.
Those figures deserve attention.
Western Australia’s experience was unlike almost anywhere else on Earth.
Millions of vaccine doses administered in a population with very limited exposure to the virus and a material spike in adverse events.
If we are to learn from history, this data deserves our attention.
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