On April 15, 2025, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled plans to reform the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, aiming to automate and expand data collection to better monitor vaccine-related injuries.

Speaking at a “Make America Healthy Again” event in Indiana and covered by local press including the Indiana Capital Chronicle, Kennedy emphasized the need for a more functional surveillance system, proposing the integration of additional datasets to assess the impact of vaccines and other environmental exposures on chronic health conditions.

He referenced a 2010 study suggesting that the current system captures only a fraction of adverse events, though experts caution that this figure includes minor side effects and may not accurately reflect serious vaccine-related injuries.?

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