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.
Gait inability appears in 4,941 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 146 reports also mentioned death and 1,632 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 36.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), Flu (Quadrivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Gait inability has been reported 4,941 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 146 were associated with death (2.95%) and 1,632 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Gait inability is 36.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.