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===== For military personnel specifically, most SAE data come through broad U.S. systems like VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) or Defense Health Agency monitoring, not special stand-alone military registries, so: =====
* VAERS reports capture events after vaccination, but do not prove causation — meaning a report after a shot isn’t evidence the vaccine caused it. Further clinical review and epidemiologic study are needed to determine that. CDC<ref>{{cite web|title=CDC|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/vaers/index.html|publisher=cdc.gov|access-date=2025-12-20}}</ref>
* Independent fact-checks have flagged misuses of such data where people claim “hundreds of serious reactions among military veterans” from COVID shots — these claims misinterpret VAERS reports as causal. Science Feedback<ref>{{cite web|title=Science Feedback|url=https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/unsupported-claim-that-covid-19-vaccines-caused-hundreds-of-serious-reactions-among-military-veterans-misuses-vaers-reports/|publisher=Science Feedback|access-date=2025-12-20}}</ref>

Because VAERS is a passive system that accepts all reports, both military and civilian data require contextual interpretation before concluding anything causal.