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.
Pain Reports for COVID-19 Vaccine
#4 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Pain and COVID-19 Vaccine
Pain has been reported 119,629 times in association with COVID-19 Vaccine vaccination in VAERS. This represents 10.7% of all 1,121,388 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 679 mentioned death (0.57%) and 6,604 involved hospitalization (5.5%).
Pain is the #4 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 119,629 reports of Pain 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), Pain appears in only 10.7% of reports.
The mortality rate among these reports is very low at 0.57%, 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.