Israel Didn’t Check Most Reports of COVID Vaccine Side Effects: Watchdog

Israeli health officials did not look into hundreds of thousands of reports of problems following COVID-19 vaccination, a watchdog found. People submitted some 354,200 reports of side effects after COVID-19 vaccination to the Israeli Ministry of Health, but 82 percent of the reports were lost, according to State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman. Officials blamed technical malfunctions. The Ministry of Health also did not investigate 33,000 additional reports that were filed anonymously, according to Mr. Englman’s probe, even though some of the anonymous reporters provided contact information. The ministry told the watchdog it did not have enough manpower to contact the people who reported adverse events....