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.
Malaise appears in 57,477 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 1,339 reports also mentioned death and 6,579 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 13.8%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Shingles (Zostavax), Flu (Trivalent). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Malaise has been reported 57,477 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 1,339 were associated with death (2.33%) and 6,579 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Malaise is 13.8%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.