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.
Acute respiratory failure appears in 6,791 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 1,446 reports also mentioned death and 6,384 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 100.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, COVID-19 (Bivalent), Unknown Vaccine. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Acute respiratory failure has been reported 6,791 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 1,446 were associated with death (21.29%) and 6,384 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Acute respiratory failure is 100.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.