Wouter Aukema: a deep dive into the EMA's adverse events reports database

Wouter is a Dutch data analyst who has examined the adverse event reports that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) makes available through its website -- and not just those adverse events that relate directly to the COVID vaccines, but really ALL reports, for approximately 6,000 different drugs and vaccines. In these data, he has detected a steep rise in the reports on drugs against cancer and autoimmune diseases, as well as eye and skin conditions. This rise coincided with the roll-out of the COVID vaccines and may be caused by their increased use due to the adverse events of those vaccines.

In his presentation, Wouter demonstrates two software tools that he has created for the analysis of the EMA data, and that he has made publicly available. The first, more comprehensive tool requires the installation of some software programs, as explained on his website:

http://www.aukema.org/

The second tool, less fine-grained but more up-to-date, can be accessed online, without requiring any local installations:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/wouter.aukema6900/viz/EMA-EV-ATC-V02/Dashboard1

Wouter hopes that people with medical expertise will put these data and these tools to good use.