4LA-10562-33584

5 vaccinations 9 coded responses 38 check-ins 9 free-text entries 4 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 66+
ZIP prefix: 123 / NY
Registered: 2021-03-07

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

Possible VAERS report

VAERS ID	Confidence	Score	Runner-up	Shared symptoms	Dose	State	VAERS vaccinated / onset / received	Call case
1392152 (opens in a new window)	high	10 / 11	3	2 of 5 VAERS symptoms	same dose (2)	NY matches	2021-03-28 / 2021-03-30 / 2021-06-11 received 71 days after the last call	case 434152

From the VAERS matching of call center cases (loader/vaers_match_*). Only the best match is shown, and only if it scores 8 or more out of 11. The score adds up timing (VAERS received soon after the call center contact), dose and shared symptoms; state only breaks ties. Confidence is high when the score is 8+ and at least 3 points ahead of the runner-up, medium when 5+ and 2 ahead, otherwise low. A match is a likely link, not a confirmed one.

Timeline

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

2021-03-07
Registered in v-safe
2021-03-07
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-07
Health check-in — day 0, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-08
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-09
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-10
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-11
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-12
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-13
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-14
Health check-in — day 7, dose 1
Feeling: Fair · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-21
Health check-in — day 14, dose 1
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-28
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-28
Health check-in — day 0, dose 2
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · None

Adult check-in
2021-03-29
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · Headache

Adult check-in
2021-03-30
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Headache, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-03-31
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Headache

Adult check-in
2021-04-01
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Headache, Office visit, Pain of skin, Paraesthesia — Feeling: Fair · Headache · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Systemic reaction (other): Two days after the vaccination I developed a left sided headache, sore scalp and tingling in my face, forehead and scalp. · Healthcare visit (other): PCP office visit with PA

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-01
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-02
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Herpes zoster, Office visit — Feeling: Poor · Headache, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness, Rash, not including the immediate area around the injection site · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Systemic reaction (other): I have shingles! Coincidence? · Healthcare visit (other): PA in my PCPs office.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-02
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-03
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Herpes zoster — Feeling: Fair · Headache, Fatigue or tiredness, Rash, not including the immediate area around the injection site

Free text: shingles

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-04
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Herpes zoster — Feeling: Fair · Headache, Fatigue or tiredness, Rash, not including the immediate area around the injection site

Free text: I have shingles

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-11
Health check-in — day 14, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-04-18
Health check-in — day 21, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-04-25
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-05-02
Survey response — day 35, dose 2
MedDRA: Herpes zoster — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I have had shingles for 4+ weeks and they are worsening.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-09
Health check-in — day 42, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-06-11
Call successful
Completed over the phone
2021-06-27
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-09-26
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-10-09
Dose 3 — Pfizer-BioNTech
Co-administered: Flu
2022-03-28
Health check-in — 12 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-03-31
Dose 4 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2022-04-24
Health check-in — day 21, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-04-28
Health check-in — day 28, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-05-05
Health check-in — day 35, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-05-12
Health check-in — day 42, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-06-30
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 4
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-09-11
Dose 5 — Pfizer-BioNTech
Co-administered: Flu
2022-09-20
Survey response — day 7, dose 5
MedDRA: Herpes zoster, Neuropathic pruritus — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain

Free text: Continuing post-herpetic itching from shingles contracted after second dose.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-09-25
Health check-in — day 14, dose 5
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-10-02
Health check-in — day 21, dose 5
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-10-09
Survey response — day 28, dose 5
MedDRA: Chest discomfort, Dyspnoea — Feeling: Fair

Free text: shortness of breath and chest discomfort

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-10-16
Survey response — day 35, dose 5
MedDRA: Myocardial infarction — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Hospitalization

Free text: Heart attack on October 3, 2022.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-10-16
Report sent to call center — day 35, dose 5
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Hospitalization · 1 call case(s)
2022-10-17
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2022-10-23
Health check-in — day 42, dose 5
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-12-11
Survey response — 3 months, dose 5
MedDRA: Myocardial infarction — Feeling: Good · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit, Emergency room or emergency department visit, Hospitalization

Free text: Heart attack on October 3, 2022.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-12-11
Report sent to call center — 3 months, dose 5
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit · Emergency room or emergency department visit · Hospitalization · 1 call case(s)
2022-12-13
Call successful
Not applicable – Participant does not believe symptoms are related to vaccine and does not wish to fill
2022-12-13
Call successful
Reported to VAERS during previous contact from GDIT
2023-03-12
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 5
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-03-07	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-03-28	Pfizer-BioNTech
3	2021-10-09	Pfizer-BioNTech	Flu
4	2022-03-31	Pfizer-BioNTech	No
5	2022-09-11	Pfizer-BioNTech	Flu

Call center

4 call center cases

4 successful

VAERS report filed, before or during a call: 3

See the call center timeline

Free text

Release 6 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-04-01

Systemic reaction (other): Two days after the vaccination I developed a left sided headache, sore scalp and tingling in my face, forehead and scalp.

Healthcare visit (other): PCP office visit with PA

2021-04-02

Systemic reaction (other): I have shingles! Coincidence?

Healthcare visit (other): PA in my PCPs office.

2021-04-03

Systemic reaction (other): shingles

Release 6 — day 7, dose 2

2021-04-04

Systemic reaction (other): I have shingles

Release 8 — day 35, dose 2

2021-05-02

Symptoms: I have had shingles for 4+ weeks and they are worsening.

Release 12 — day 7, dose 5

2022-09-20

Systemic reaction (other): Continuing post-herpetic itching from shingles contracted after second dose.

Release 12 — day 28, dose 5

2022-10-09

Symptoms: shortness of breath and chest discomfort

Release 12 — day 35, dose 5

2022-10-16

Symptoms: Heart attack on October 3, 2022.

Release 12 — 3 months, dose 5

2022-12-11

Symptoms: Heart attack on October 3, 2022.

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
HCVO	Office visit	✓	✓	✓
SD	Chest discomfort	·	·	✓
SD	Dyspnoea	·	·	✓
SD	Herpes zoster	✓	✓	✓
SD	Myocardial infarction	·	·	✓
SRO	Headache	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Herpes zoster	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Neuropathic pruritus	·	·	✓
SRO	Pain of skin	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Paraesthesia	✓	✓	✓

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