Modern Interface, Same Old Problem?

Christopher Dreisbach - 

The FDA's new Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) promises a unified, real-time dashboard for adverse events across vaccines, drugs, devices, and more... replacing fragmented systems like VAERS and FAERS. Officials call it a transparency breakthrough. But for the vaccine-injured, the real issue isn't prettier data... it's whether reports will ever get real followup, investigation, and action.

For five years, officials downplayed severe signals as "one in a million" while insisting VAERS would catch problems. When injured people pointed to those same numbers, VAERS was suddenly "unreliable." AEMS might tidy the front end, but it doesn't fix the back-end silence: minimal followup, ignored reports, no transparent adjudication.

Dr. Danice Hertz's story... 11 reports over three years before anyone requested records... shows the pattern. A dashboard changes nothing without transparency in algorithms, accountability for every report, and open access to raw data.

True reform requires more than rebranding. Without these fixes, AEMS risks becoming just another polished archive for ignored suffering.

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Christopher Dreisbach is the Legal Affairs Director of React19, a science-based nonprofit providing financial, physical, and emotional support to individuals worldwide suffering long-term adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines.

Before his own life-altering vaccine injury, Chris practiced criminal defense in central Pennsylvania. His clients ranged from those facing minor charges (e.g., DUI) to serious felonies including homicide. He also served as court-appointed counsel for incarcerated individuals under Pennsylvania’s Post Conviction Relief Act. In 2009, he was named Advocate of the Year for his work advocating on behalf of victims of violent crime.