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.
Throat irritation appears in 11,433 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 7 reports also mentioned death and 318 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 2.8%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, FLU3, COVID19-2. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Throat irritation has been reported 11,433 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 7 were associated with death (0.06%) and 318 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Throat irritation is 2.8%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.