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Article History

Accepted: 17 February 2025

First Online: 12 March 2025

Declarations

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: No ethics approval is required for studies using publicly available data from VAERS.

: The data sources are open access and the datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

: Code is available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: Not applicable. VAERS spontaneous reports are anonymous and publicly available.

: Not applicable. VAERS spontaneous reports are anonymous and publicly available.

: MS and AB conceived and designed the study. AB, and MS designed and supervised the research and analyzed the data. MB, AA, EP, MAB, GP, AR, SP, AH, AB, and MS wrote the original draft and reviewed and edited. AA, EP, MAB, GP, AR, SP, AH, AB, and MS participated in the interpretation of data, and revised and approved the final article as submitted.

: No funding was received for this study.

: Greg Powell and Andrew Bate are both employees of GSK and hold stock and stock options. All the other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Andrew Bate is an Editorial Board member of Drug Safety. Andrew Bate was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor in any of the subsequent editorial decisions.