evidence: So when VAERS says it has received 2,509 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine as of March 29, that does not mean that those deaths were caused by the vaccine. [...] When VAERS detects something unusual, those signals are investigated by scientists and other vaccine surveillance systems, such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a collaboration between the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office and nine health care organizations, or the CDC’s Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Project, a network of vaccine safety experts, including those at seven medical research centers, to evaluate causality. In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, VAERS is just one of several vaccine safety monitoring systems the government has in place. [...] Take the 2,509 reports of death filed to VAERS as of March 29, which represent 0.0017% of those who had received a COVID-19 vaccine. People die every day for any number of reasons. In 2019, for example, 0.8% of the U.S. population died from any cause, according to the CDC. That was before the coronavirus pandemic.