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.
SARS-CoV-2 test positive Reports for COVID-19 Vaccine
#10 most reported symptom for this vaccine
SARS-CoV-2 test positive and COVID-19 Vaccine
SARS-CoV-2 test positive has been reported 74,544 times in association with COVID-19 Vaccine vaccination in VAERS. This represents 6.6% of all 1,121,388 reports for this vaccine.
Among these reports, 7,865 mentioned death (10.55%) and 39,632 involved hospitalization (53.2%).
SARS-CoV-2 test positive is the #10 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 74,544 reports of SARS-CoV-2 test positive 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), SARS-CoV-2 test positive appears in only 6.6% of reports.
The 10.55% mortality rate among these reports is elevated, but this reflects the severity of the condition itself rather than vaccine causation.
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Data Source
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.