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.
Myalgia appears in 95,202 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 258 reports also mentioned death and 4,011 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 4.5%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, VARZOS, FLU3. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Myalgia has been reported 95,202 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 258 were associated with death (0.27%) and 4,011 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Myalgia is 4.5%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.