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.
Lung opacity appears in 2,644 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 414 reports also mentioned death and 2,334 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.
Lung opacity has been reported 2,644 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 414 were associated with death (15.66%) and 2,334 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Lung opacity is 100.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.