Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in the US
Vaccine Safety and Monitoring
COVID-19 vaccines were developed using science that has been around for decades.
COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and meet the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) rigorous scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality.
COVID 19-vaccines are effective at preventing severe illness from COVID-19 and limiting the spread of the virus that causes it.
Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines are monitored by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history.
CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone ages 6 months and older, and boosters for everyone 5 years and older, if eligible.
To make sure that COVID-19 vaccines are safe, CDC expanded and strengthened the country’s ability to monitor vaccine safety. CDC created new web-based platforms to gather more information about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. These platforms give CDC scientists information about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in real time.
As a result, vaccine safety experts can monitor and detect issues that may not have been seen during the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials. If any vaccine safety issues—also called adverse events— are reported, CDC scientists can quickly study them and determine if there is a safety concern with a particular vaccine.
Here are some of the tools that CDC uses to keep close tabs on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines:
v-safe V-safe provides quick and confidential health check-ins via text messages and web surveys so you can quickly and easily share with CDC how you or your dependent feel after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) VAERS is the national system that collects reports of adverse events that happen after vaccination. 10 Things Healthcare Providers Need to Know about VAERS
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring Systems for Pregnant People Learn how CDC is monitoring the safety of COVID-19 vaccination in people who are pregnant.
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