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.
Wrong technique in product usage process appears in 1,815 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 0 reports also mentioned death and 18 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 1.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, FLU3, FLU4. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Wrong technique in product usage process has been reported 1,815 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 0 were associated with death (0.00%) and 18 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Wrong technique in product usage process is 1.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.