Did Israel delete or lose 82% of its COVID-19 vaccine safety data, including reports of vaccine side effects?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Israel deleted or lost 82% of COVID-19 vaccine safety data!
People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims or suggests that Israel deleted or lost 82% of its COVID-19 vaccine safety data, including reports of vaccine side effects!
Here is excerpts of the article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
Israel Blames ‘System Malfunction’ For ‘Accidentally Deleting’ Covid Vaccine Safety Data
Israel’s government Health Ministry has announced that 82% of the nation’s official data on Covid side-effects has been lost due to “technical errors and system malfunctions.”
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Truth : Israel did not delete or lose 82% of COVID-19 vaccine safety data!
This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : COVID-19 vaccine side effect reports were recorded in different database
Let me start by pointing out that these claims are based on an article by The Times of Israel which reported that the Israel State Comptroller claimed that the Israeli Health Ministry lost 82% of COVID-19 vaccine side effect reports due to “technical errors” and “system malfunctions”.
The truth is – the Israeli Health Ministry was using a new and different computerised reporting system to handle reports of COVID-19 vaccine side effects.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry initiated the establishment of an additional computerized reporting system in order to facilitate the reporting, and at the time the monitoring continued in the normal system while manually monitoring the reports.
This was also mentioned in the same article by The Times of Israel, so there can be no confusion about the facts:
In response to the findings detailed in the report, the Health Ministry said Tuesday that it had accurately collected all reported instances of side effects, saying that it had collected the data in a new system rather than in the ministry’s usual database.
Fact #2 : COVID-19 vaccine side effect database did not malfunction
The People’s Voice claimed that the new Israeli system for recording COVID-19 vaccine side effect reports “malfunctioned”.
However, that’s not true – The Times of Israel article never made that claim. Neither did the Israeli Health Ministry ever say that its new computerised system “malfunctioned”.
Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence that 82% of the COVID-19 vaccine reports were lost because the new computerised system “malfunctioned”.
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Fact #3 : All Vaccine Side Effect Reports Were Checked
The Israeli Health Ministry refuted the State Comptroller’s report, stating that “all the reports received… from the HMOs were checked“. It explained that reports that did not contain critical information, or were not related to COVID-19, were “manually checked and analysed by its employees.
The Health Ministry also explained that it created a new form for reporting COVID-19 vaccine side effects, which was analysed by an additional professional team “in real time”. Those findings were then published in full transparency:
All the reports received on the interface from the HMOs were checked. Since there were dozens of reports that did not contain critical information or were not at all related to COVID-19, it was agreed that the reports would be reported manually and analyzed by the employees of the Ministry of Health.
In addition, in order to improve direct reports from citizens, during the pandemic, the Ministry created an identifiable form in which side effects after COVID-19 vaccination could be reported and recruited an additional professional team to analyze the findings in real time. These were also published in full transparency to the public.
The Health Ministry also followed reports of side effects “in real time”, which allowed it to be the first to identify and report side effects of mRNA vaccines like myocarditis, and publish it transparently to the public.
Fact #4 : Most vaccine side effects were minor
Interestingly, The People’s Voice article pointed out that the Comptroller’s office found that “many of the vaccine side-effects were severe“. That’s not true.
The Comptroller’s Office actually found that the “the majority of the side effects… were mild” symptoms like “low fever and pain at the vaccine site“.
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Fact #5 : Israel Health Ministry failed to combat fake news
Ironically, the State Comptroller’s report criticised the Israeli Health Ministry for failing to combat “false information and anti-vaccination propaganda” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also noted that the Health Ministry’s failure to prevent anti-vaccine misinformation from spreading may have resulted in increased skepticism towards vaccines in general. The report suggested that the Health Ministry should work with the National Public Diplomacy Directorate to formulate a strategy to combat misinformation during times of emergency, like another outbreak or pandemic.
Fact #6 : The People’s Voice Is Known For Fake News
The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.
Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.
Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should never share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:
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