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 X-ray appears in 11,380 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 263 reports also mentioned death and 3,615 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 34.1%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), Shingles (Zostavax). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Chest X-ray has been reported 11,380 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 263 were associated with death (2.31%) and 3,615 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Chest X-ray is 34.1%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.