The US has an ongoing system to monitor vaccine safety which has been in place for years. It’s called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. There is a new component to it that I learned of today for the new Covid 19 vaccines. It’s called V safe, an after vaccination health checker. It’s a new way of tracking vaccine safety:
▪ V-safe is a new CDC smart-phone based monitoring
program for COVID-19 vaccine safety
– uses text messaging and web surveys to check-in with
vaccine recipients after vaccination
– participants can report side effects and health impact
events after COVID-19 vaccination
– includes active telephone follow-up by CDC for reports of
significant health impact
– captures information on pregnancy status and enables
follow-up on pregnant women
▪ V-safe conducts electronic health checkins with vaccine recipients
– daily for first week post-vaccination; weekly
thereafter until 6 weeks post-vaccination
– additional health checks at 3, 6, and 12 months
post-vaccination
– timeline resets at 2nd dose
Here is additional information on all the various monitoring systems from the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety.html
