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.
Intensive care appears in 7,083 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 1,685 reports also mentioned death and 6,413 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 100.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), HPV (Gardasil). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Intensive care has been reported 7,083 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 1,685 were associated with death (23.79%) and 6,413 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Intensive care is 100.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.