Agnes Kant, director of the Dutch side effects center Lareb, says the side effects reported in the US match what is reported at Lareb. Relatively more than five times more was reported in the Netherlands; Lareb received nearly 200,000 reports of suspected side effects on nearly 34 million shots. Kant: “In the Netherlands there is apparently a high willingness to report. That is very good, because the better the reporting, the better insight we have into the side effects that occur.”
Kant emphasizes that the number of reports says nothing about how often side effects occur. “Not all side effects have been reported and not everything reported is always an adverse reaction,” she explains.
The US CDC researchers also make that caveat. In their study, they warn against underreporting. According to Lareb director Kant, questionnaire studies are a better indicator when it comes to how often side effects occur. “The results of this in the Netherlands are also comparable to those in the US. It showed that younger people and women more often experience the common known side effects,” she says.
After the first shots with the mRNA vaccines, numerous reports emerged about ‘vaccination damage’ and ‘many deaths’ from vaccines. Given the findings of the American study, Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst believes that “those who unnecessarily frightened our population for months” should now apologize, he writes on Twitter.
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