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.
Chest pain appears in 41,781 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 619 reports also mentioned death and 10,502 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 26.6%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Smallpox, Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Chest pain has been reported 41,781 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 619 were associated with death (1.48%) and 10,502 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Chest pain is 26.6%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.