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.
Sepsis appears in 3,958 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 945 reports also mentioned death and 3,278 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, Hib, DTaP. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Sepsis has been reported 3,958 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 945 were associated with death (23.88%) and 3,278 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Sepsis is 100.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.