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.
Back pain appears in 28,482 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 257 reports also mentioned death and 3,339 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 12.6%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Back pain has been reported 28,482 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 257 were associated with death (0.90%) and 3,339 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Back pain is 12.6%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.