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.
Activities of daily living impaired appears in 3,456 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 23 reports also mentioned death and 483 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 14.6%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are Flu (Trivalent), HPV (Gardasil), Tdap. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Activities of daily living impaired has been reported 3,456 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 23 were associated with death (0.67%) and 483 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Activities of daily living impaired is 14.6%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.