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.
Neck pain appears in 24,653 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 83 reports also mentioned death and 1,615 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 6.9%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), Shingles (Zostavax). Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Neck pain has been reported 24,653 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 83 were associated with death (0.34%) and 1,615 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Neck pain is 6.9%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.