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.
Vaccination site pain appears in 22,572 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 16 reports also mentioned death and 252 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 1.2%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), Unknown Vaccine. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Vaccination site pain has been reported 22,572 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 16 were associated with death (0.07%) and 252 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Vaccination site pain is 1.2%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.