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.
Dry skin appears in 2,220 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 7 reports also mentioned death and 78 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 3.8%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Dry skin has been reported 2,220 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 7 were associated with death (0.32%) and 78 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Dry skin is 3.8%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.