VAERS CDC Disclaimer

VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.

The strengths of VAERS are that it is national in scope and can quickly provide an early warning of a safety problem with a vaccine. As part of CDC and FDA’s multi-system approach to post-licensure vaccine safety monitoring, VAERS is designed to rapidly detect unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse events, also known as “safety signals.” If a safety signal is found in VAERS, further studies can be done in safety systems such as the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) or the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project. These systems do not have the same scientific limitations as VAERS, and can better assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine.

Key considerations and limitations of VAERS data:

Vaccine providers are encouraged to report any clinically significant health problem following vaccination to VAERS, whether or not they believe the vaccine was the cause.

Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.

The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines.

VAERS data is limited to vaccine adverse event reports received between 1990 and the most recent date for which data are available.

VAERS data do not represent all known safety information for a vaccine and should be interpreted in the context of other scientific information.

VAERS data available to the public include only the initial report data to VAERS. Updated data which contains data from medical records and corrections reported during follow up are used by the government for analysis. However, for numerous reasons including data consistency, these amended data are not available to the public.

VAERS COVID Vaccine
Adverse Event Reports

Reports from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Our default data reflects all VAERS data including the "nondomestic" reports.

As of 11-18-2022 VAERS has stopped putting free text field information in the public data for Europe/UK.

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US/Territories/Unknown

1,640,416 Reports Through May 31, 2024

source: OpenVAERS.com

* As of November 18, 2022 VAERS has stopped putting free text field information in for Europe/UK.

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source: OpenVAERS.com

1,011,672 Reports Through May 31, 2024

source: OpenVAERS.com

18,912

Deaths

90,006

Hospitalizations

118,772

Urgent Care

199,235

Doctor Office Visits

2,499

Anaphylaxis

6,346

Bell's Palsy

* As of November 18, 2022 VAERS has stopped putting free text field information in for Europe/UK.

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VAERS COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports

Reports from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Our default data reflects all VAERS data including the "nondomestic" reports.

1,640,416 Reports Through May 31, 2024

37,647

216,757

154,810

243,814

10,834

17,759

5,139

Miscarriages

21,741

Heart Attacks

28,445

Myocarditis/ Pericarditis

71,005

Permanently Disabled

9,218

Thrombocytopenia/ Low Platelet

40,002

Life Threatening

46,899

Severe Allergic Reaction

16,147

Shingles

* As of November 18, 2022 VAERS has stopped putting free text field information in for Europe/UK.

1,011,672 Reports Through May 31, 2024

18,912

90,006

118,772

199,235

2,499

6,346

2,063

Miscarriages

9,404

Heart Attacks

5,222

Myocarditis/Pericarditis

18,214

Permanently Disabled

3,697

Thrombocytopenia/Low Platelet

15,165

Life Threatening

36,618

Severe Allergic Reaction

8,213

Shingles

* As of November 18, 2022 VAERS has stopped putting free text field information in for Europe/UK.

VAERS COVID Vaccine
Adverse Event Reports

Myocarditis/
Pericarditis

Thrombocytopenia/
Low Platelet