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 in extremity Reports for COVID-19 Vaccine
#9 most reported symptom for this vaccine
Pain in extremity and COVID-19 Vaccine
Pain in extremity has been reported 90,987 times in association with COVID-19 Vaccine vaccination in VAERS. This represents 8.1% of all 1,121,388 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 362 mentioned death (0.40%) and 3,791 involved hospitalization (4.2%).
Pain in extremity is the #9 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 90,987 reports of Pain in extremity 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 in extremity appears in only 8.1% of reports.
The mortality rate among these reports is very low at 0.40%, 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.