diff --git a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
index f9d5cdae9b0..4db00c56585 100644
--- a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
+++ b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@
     "print('needsUpdate:', needsUpdate)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "194b7357",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "years_from_2020_to_present = list(range(2020, datetime.now().year + 1))"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
@@ -54,7 +64,7 @@
    "source": [
     "updateVAERSFiles(\n",
     "        needsUpdate = needsUpdate,\n",
-    "        years = [2022],\n",
+    "        years = years_from_2020_to_present,\n",
     "        workingDirectory = os.getcwd())"
    ]
   },
@@ -65,7 +75,7 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "internationalVaersCovid19 = getInternationalVaersCovid19(years = [2020, 2021, 2022])\n",
+    "internationalVaersCovid19 = getInternationalVaersCovid19(years = years_from_2020_to_present)\n",
     "internationalVaersCovid19"
    ]
   },
@@ -138,7 +148,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.10.8 (main, Nov 24 2022, 14:13:03) [GCC 11.2.0]"
+   "version": "3.10.8"
   },
   "vscode": {
    "interpreter": {
diff --git a/src/help.txt b/src/help.txt
index 3021bc79063..48297679160 100644
--- a/src/help.txt
+++ b/src/help.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 jupyter notebook
 
-
-get VAERS data:
-- download data (e.g. 2022VAERSData.zip) from https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html and save and unzip in VAERS folder
-
 FK-FIXME:
 
 FK-TODO: