Hundreds of thousands of Americans sought medical care after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
data released on Oct. 3.
Some 782,900 people reported seeking medical attention, emergency room care and/or hospitalization following COVID-19 vaccination.
Another 2.5 million people reported needing to miss school, work or other normal activities as a result of a health event after getting a
COVID-19 vaccine.
The reports were made to the CDC’s
V-safe program, a new vaccine safety monitoring system to which users can report issues through smartphones.
The CDC released the data to the
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) after
being sued over not producing the data when asked by the nonprofit.
About 10 million people utilized V-safe during the period of time the data covers: Dec. 14, 2020, to July 31, 2022. About 231 million Americans received at least one vaccine doses during that time.
The V-safe users reported about 71 million symptoms.
The most commonly reported symptoms were chills (3.5 million), swelling (3.6 million), joint pain (4 million), muscle or body aches (7.8 million), headache (9.7 million), fatigue (12.7 million) and general pain (19.5 million).
About 4.2 million of the symptoms were of severe severity.
Users of V-safe filled in data for about 13,000
infants younger than two, reporting over 33,000 symptoms, including pain, loss of appetite and irritability.
