Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Headache Reports for COVID-19 Vaccine
#1 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Headache and COVID-19 Vaccine
Headache has been reported 166,535 times in association with COVID-19 Vaccine vaccination in VAERS. This represents 14.9% of all 1,121,388 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 680 mentioned death (0.41%) and 7,611 involved hospitalization (4.6%).
Headache is the #1 most frequently reported symptom for COVID-19 Vaccine out of 9223 total symptoms.
Disclaimer: VAERS reports describe events that occurred after vaccination but do not establish that the vaccine caused the event. Many reported symptoms may be coincidental or related to underlying conditions.
What This Means
Seeing 166,535 reports of Headache after COVID-19 Vaccine vaccination may seem alarming, but context is critical. With 1,121,388 total reports for this vaccine (representing many millions of doses), Headache appears in only 14.9% of reports.
The mortality rate among these reports is very low at 0.41%, suggesting most cases are non-fatal.
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Data Source
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.