IT WASN’T EASY TO REPORT JAB INJURIES IN THE ‘BEFORE TIMES’
It was rare for a vaccine injury to happen during my career as a medical coder but there were codes available should one occur. T36-T50 codes were on the books for poisonings and adverse effects of all kinds of drugs, including vaccines. T88.xxxx series is for reporting complications following vaccines. Instructions are very clear about side effects of any kind, even if it is considered normal, they should be reported. Rash and soreness at the injection site would be reported as a complication despite media screaming at us all day long that rashes and soreness is totally normal. Media also denies that vaccines can cause seizures and joint problems, yet there are codes for reporting “post immunization encephalitis” G04.02 and “post immunization arthropathy” M02.2. If these “side effects” don’t happen, then why do we have codes for them? CDC published 4 severity categories for vaccine adverse events and they provide a link to the VAERS website for reporting them.
Mysteriously, there is no mention of the ICD-10 coding system that the CDC and the WHO mandates healthcare systems to use. As a medical coder, I never received any training on reporting to VAERS. I never even heard of it until Covid-19. We were extensively trained on disease and drug safety reporting to CDC.
What would it take for someone to be labeled as a vaccine injury in the before times? Your provider would first need to recognize the condition they are seeing is related to a vaccine. Which is extremely problematic for a variety of reasons. Physicians are taught that vaccines are the best invention since oxygen. Coverage of possible reactions, side effects, adverse events and even death are completely omitted from their education. Leaving your medical ‘expert’ with a gaping blind spot when it comes to identifying vaccine reactions of any kind. How can your doctor know what symptoms could manifest after vaccination if they never even read the package insert? It’s the document intended to tell your doctor what to look for and what to do should you have a reaction. Pharmacists are the designated experts other physicians turn to when they need information on drugs. Turns out not even your pharmacist is able to advise providers on possible adverse effects. They don’t receive training on it either. We certainly didn’t receive training as medical coders or auditors.
When a patient walks in with a rash, for example, doctors are likely to suspect allergic reaction first. They look for environmental, chemical or food sources. Things like peanuts, detergents, and bug bites. Often, there is no identifiable allergen. I’ve seen it 1000 times. Patient walks in with rash and gets diagnosed with an unknown allergen. If physicians cared to look in their medical record, they would have found recent vaccinations in an awful lot of cases of young children with unidentifiable rashes. Patients get prescribed epipens, antihistamines, steroids, and antibiotics to treat their symptoms. Perhaps the most important medical advice is completely absent. Avoiding re-exposure to the allergen. By not identifying a vaccine as an allergen, it sets patients up for even more severe reactions next time.
In the rare moment when a physician does suspect a vaccine could be causing a bad reaction, there is a very strong tendency to deny it. Notes would reflect doctors documenting Gillian barre, which their patient suffered just days after receiving a vaccination, was “not due to the vaccine”. Gillian barre just “spontaneously” developed as an auto-immune version of the disease. Same situation with bells palsy. Debate ensues online if bells palsy is an autoimmune condition or vaccine injury.
One can begin to understand the incredible odds against reporting vaccine injuries long before Covid. The physician has to recognize it and write it down first. Adverse events were often mistaken as allergies or other diseases. When adverse events were identified, codes for reporting which vaccine was to blame were vague. Yet there was a framework available. Serum vaccines, viral vaccines, or bacterial vaccines. There are even codes for adverse reactions to immunoglobulin injections, pertussis and smallpox vaccines specifically. Researchers, Medicare, CDC and WHO pull medical records using these codes to monitor safety of all of them.
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According to the law doctors are not supposed to diagnose if an adverse event is associated with vaccine. They are just supposed to file the report in VAERS and the CDC/FDA determine if the event is associated with the recent vaccination.
According to the law doctors are not supposed to diagnose if an adverse event is associated with vaccine. They are just supposed to file the report in VAERS and the CDC/FDA determine if the event is associated with the recent vaccination.