A news item in Nature by Ariana Remmel explains how challenging it is to prove that a medical problem following immunization was caused by the vaccine itself and describes the kinds of studies that are needed to understand the causes of rare adverse events. These include targeted clinical trials and active surveillance systems that collect adverse event data, both background rates and rates after vaccination, from electronic health records.
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