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2 vaccinations 10 coded responses 23 check-ins 10 free-text entries 0 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 66+
ZIP prefix: 079 / NJ
Registered: 2021-01-25

Relationship: Self
Race: White
Ethnicity: Not Hispanic or Latino

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Timeline

Registration Vaccinations Survey responses Call reports Cases without a report Call attempts Call successful Pregnancy survey

2021-01-25
Registered in v-safe
2021-01-25
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-01-25
Survey response — day 0, dose 1
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Fair

Free text: Metallic taste in mouth and throat

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-26
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Still have metallic taste in mouth. Not as bad as yesterday

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Fever · Headache, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Still waves of metallic taste. Less than day 1 and yesterday, but still happening from time to time. Am I safe to have the second shot?

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-28
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-01-29
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-01-30
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Good · Fatigue or tiredness

Free text: Still some traces of metallic taste. This is weird as I lost my taste and smell to COVID in March.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-31
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-01
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Ageusia, Anosmia, Dysgeusia — Feeling: Good

Free text: Back to metallic taste in mouth. Again, lost taste and smell on March, maybe 40% smell back and 5-10% of taste (on a very good day), so to have a metallic taste is very odd.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-08
Health check-in — day 14, dose 1
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-02-15
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-15
Survey response — day 0, dose 2
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain

Free text: Metallic taste

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-16
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Dizziness — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Chills, Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Dizziness

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-17
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Poor · Nausea, Diarrhea · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Metallic taste

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-19
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-21
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-22
Health check-in — day 7, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-01
Health check-in — day 14, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-08
Survey response — day 21, dose 2
MedDRA: Dysgeusia — Feeling: Good

Free text: I had the Pfizer vaccine. On March 6, 2020, I lost all taste and smell and had other symptoms. It was too early in the pandemic to get a test. I did have lots of antibodies in August. I had strong metallic taste after both shots. taste is now returni

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-15
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-22
Health check-in — day 35, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-29
Health check-in — day 42, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-05-19
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-08-16
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-02-15
Survey response — 12 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Pre-existing disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus — Feeling: Good

Free text: I'm still experiencing loss of taste and smell, 23 months after having COVID. I've now been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, which they think is related to the COVID. No problems with the 3 vaccinations

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-01-25	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-02-15	Pfizer-BioNTech

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Release 2 — day 0, dose 1

2021-01-25

Systemic reaction (other): Metallic taste in mouth and throat

Release 2 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-26

Systemic reaction (other): Still have metallic taste in mouth. Not as bad as yesterday

2021-01-27

Systemic reaction (other): Still waves of metallic taste. Less than day 1 and yesterday, but still happening from time to time. Am I safe to have the second shot?

Release 3 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-30

Systemic reaction (other): Still some traces of metallic taste. This is weird as I lost my taste and smell to COVID in March.

Release 3 — day 7, dose 1

2021-02-01

Systemic reaction (other): Back to metallic taste in mouth. Again, lost taste and smell on March, maybe 40% smell back and 5-10% of taste (on a very good day), so to have a metallic taste is very odd.

Release 4 — day 0, dose 2

2021-02-15

Systemic reaction (other): Metallic taste

Release 4 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-02-16

Systemic reaction (other): Dizziness

2021-02-17

Systemic reaction (other): Metallic taste

Release 5 — day 21, dose 2

2021-03-08

Symptoms: I had the Pfizer vaccine. On March 6, 2020, I lost all taste and smell and had other symptoms. It was too early in the pandemic to get a test. I did have lots of antibodies in August. I had strong metallic taste after both shots. taste is now returni cut off by CDC

Release 11 — 12 months, dose 2

2022-02-15

Symptoms: I'm still experiencing loss of taste and smell, 23 months after having COVID. I've now been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, which they think is related to the COVID. No problems with the 3 vaccinations

Each entry is dated by the survey it was written in (the CDC re-sent the releases with survey dates in 2025); click a date to see that survey response. The CDC cut some text off at about 250 characters: symptoms in every release, and the other two fields in releases 9-12. Those entries are marked "cut off by CDC".

MedDRA terms by release

Field	Preferred term	2021-09	2023-04	2024-11
SD	Dysgeusia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pre-existing disease	·	·	✓
SD	Type 2 diabetes mellitus	·	·	✓
SRO	Ageusia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Anosmia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Dizziness	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Dysgeusia	✓	✓	✓

✓ active code · ○ coded but marked inactive · blank = not in that release