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4 vaccinations 9 coded responses 24 check-ins 8 free-text entries 1 call case

Sex: Male
Age at first dose: 36-40
ZIP prefix: 600 / IL
Registered: 2021-03-30

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

Timeline

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

2021-03-29
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-30
Registered in v-safe
2021-03-30
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Head discomfort, Headache — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Chills, Headache, Fatigue or tiredness

Free text: The headache felt like my head was swelling, like it was under intense pressure, I took ibuprofen and used a heating pad to reduce pain. I was better a few hours later.

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

Adult check-in
2021-04-02
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Head discomfort — Feeling: Fair

Free text: Slight pressure around forehead earlier

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-03
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Fair · Diarrhea

Adult check-in
2021-04-05
Health check-in — day 7, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-04-13
Survey response — day 14, dose 1
MedDRA: Musculoskeletal stiffness — Feeling: Good

Free text: Had slight stiffness and pain in right arm, same arm I was vaccinated in.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-19
Health check-in — day 21, dose 1
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-04-26
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-04-26
Health check-in — day 0, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain, Itching · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-04-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Ear pain — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain, Swelling, Itching · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness, Abdominal pain

Free text: Ear pain occured for a few seconds in the evening

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-29
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-05-01
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-05-03
Health check-in — day 7, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches

Adult check-in
2021-05-10
Health check-in — day 14, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-05-17
Survey response — day 21, dose 2
MedDRA: Ear pain, Headache, Self-medication — Feeling: Fair

Free text: I had an head ache and an ear ache today that required ibuprofen. I assume it's allergies

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-24
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-06-07
Health check-in — day 42, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-07-26
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-10-25
Survey response — 6 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Anxiety — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Increased anxiety.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-10-25
Report sent to call center — 6 months, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit · 1 call case(s)
2021-10-28
Call successful
Not applicable (accidental reporting or does not believe symptoms are related to vaccine)
2022-04-28
Survey response — 12 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, COVID-19, Pain in extremity — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to work or attend school, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Recurring long term leg and ankle pain. Had Covid on 12 24 2021.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-06-20
Dose 3 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2022-09-12
Dose 4 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2022-10-12
Survey response — day 28, dose 4
MedDRA: Asthenia, Pain in extremity — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Leg pain in left leg weakness in right hip late in the day.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-10-19
Health check-in — day 35, dose 4
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2022-10-26
Health check-in — day 42, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-12-12
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 4
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2023-03-15
Survey response — 6 months, dose 4
MedDRA: Unevaluable event — Feeling: Good

MedDRA releases: 2024-11

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-03-29	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-04-26	Pfizer-BioNTech
3	2022-06-20	Pfizer-BioNTech	No
4	2022-09-12	Pfizer-BioNTech	No

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Free text

Release 6 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-03-30

Systemic reaction (other): The headache felt like my head was swelling, like it was under intense pressure, I took ibuprofen and used a heating pad to reduce pain. I was better a few hours later.

2021-04-02

Systemic reaction (other): Slight pressure around forehead earlier

Release 7 — day 14, dose 1

2021-04-13

Symptoms: Had slight stiffness and pain in right arm, same arm I was vaccinated in.

Release 8 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-04-27

Systemic reaction (other): Ear pain occured for a few seconds in the evening

Release 8 — day 21, dose 2

2021-05-17

Symptoms: I had an head ache and an ear ache today that required ibuprofen. I assume it's allergies

Release 10 — 6 months, dose 2

2021-10-25

Symptoms: Increased anxiety.

Release 11 — 12 months, dose 2

2022-04-28

Symptoms: Recurring long term leg and ankle pain. Had Covid on 12 24 2021.

Release 12 — day 28, dose 4

2022-10-12

Symptoms: Leg pain in left leg weakness in right hip late in the day.

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	Anxiety	·	·	✓
SD	Arthralgia	·	·	✓
SD	Asthenia	·	·	✓
SD	COVID-19	·	·	✓
SD	Ear pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Headache	✓	✓	✓
SD	Musculoskeletal stiffness	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pain in extremity	·	·	✓
SD	Self-medication	✓	✓	✓
SD	Unevaluable event	·	·	✓
SRO	Ear pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Head discomfort	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Headache	✓	✓	✓

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