The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its Vaccine Injury Reporting System (VAERS), a system that will streamline publicly accessible reporting of negative or unexpected health effects linked to medicines, vaccines, cosmetics, animal food, and other consumer products. The new system will be able to process millions of adverse event reports and produce results in real time for consumers to access online. This is significant as VAERS was kept in the dark about the effects of the COVID shots, which were often underreported, making any pushback against the shots virtually impossible. Critics of the system were branded "science deniers" and dangerous anti-vaxxers, often at the behest of the Biden administration. Despite this, the Obama administration failed to connect VAERS to live link link for live link, and the data became unavailable. The pilot program launched in September saw a 3,000 increase in users when it launched.