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.
COVID-19 appears in 97,623 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 7,316 reports also mentioned death and 35,295 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 43.6%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, COVID-19 (Bivalent), Unknown Vaccine. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
COVID-19 has been reported 97,623 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 7,316 were associated with death (7.49%) and 35,295 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning COVID-19 is 43.6%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.