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.
Feeling cold appears in 12,267 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 102 reports also mentioned death and 416 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 4.2%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, VARZOS, FLU3. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Feeling cold has been reported 12,267 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 102 were associated with death (0.83%) and 416 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Feeling cold is 4.2%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.