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 pneumonia appears in 6,899 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 1,835 reports also mentioned death and 6,185 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 100.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, COVID19-2, UNK. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
COVID-19 pneumonia has been reported 6,899 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 1,835 were associated with death (26.60%) and 6,185 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning COVID-19 pneumonia is 100.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.