Very few adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccination: Public Health Ontario report

As Ontario makes all individuals six months of age or older eligible to receive the monovalent COVID-19 vaccine, new evidence is showing an extraordinarily low number of adverse events following immunization. A new report published by Public Health Ontario earlier this month showed that Ontario has administered more than 38 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine since 2020, with adverse events reported on 23,002 occasions. That would correspond with an incidence rate of just 0.06 per cent. However, Public Health Ontario says that approximately 94.5 per cent of these events were not considered serious, with allergic skin reactions, rashes and pain or redness at the injection site among the most commonly reported issues. PHO said that there were 1,256 events that met its definition for a “serious” adverse effect following immunization. Of those reports, 1,218 required admission to a hospital and 38 resulted in death. It should, however, be noted that those events included “any untoward medic