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2 vaccinations 8 coded responses 23 check-ins 8 free-text entries 2 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 46-50
ZIP prefix: 282 / NC
Registered: 2021-01-22

Relationship: Self
Race: Black or African American
Ethnicity: Not Hispanic or Latino

Timeline

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

2021-01-21
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-01-22
Registered in v-safe
2021-01-22
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Hypoaesthesia — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain

Free text: A little bit of facial numbness on the left side. Nothing noticeable physically. I have felt this before under other circumstances.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-23
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Paraesthesia — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain

Free text: Still feels a little different on the left side of my face near my mouth but nothing I can see or that hurts.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-24
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Muscle tightness — Feeling: Good · Headache

Free text: Still a little bit of tightness on the left side of my face near my mouth.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-25
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Skin tightness — Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches

Free text: Still have the tightness in my left cheek. It has never lasted this long but nothing outwardly visible.

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: Emergency care, Hypoaesthesia, Musculoskeletal stiffness — Feeling: Fair · Muscle or body aches · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: Systemic reaction (other): Still muscle stiffness in my left cheek area. · Healthcare visit (other): As a precaution because there was numbness associated with the stiffness to be on the safe side they recommended the ED. The ED did not find evidence of anything alarming.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-26
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-01-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Musculoskeletal stiffness — Feeling: Fair · Muscle or body aches

Free text: Still some stiffness in my cheek. Hot compresses and ibuprofen seem to be helping.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-29
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Musculoskeletal stiffness — Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches

Free text: Facial stiffness is almost gone. I tried intermittent hot compresses and ibuprofen.

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

Adult check-in
2021-02-11
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-11
Health check-in — day 0, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-12
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-02-13
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-14
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-02-16
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-17
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-18
Health check-in — day 7, dose 2
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-02-25
Health check-in — day 14, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-04
Health check-in — day 21, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-11
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-20
Health check-in — day 35, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-27
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Hypoaesthesia, Parotitis — Feeling: Good · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Not sure if related but developed parotitis in the same cheek I had the numbness in after the first shot. Other than that nothing.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-27
Report sent to call center — day 42, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-09
Call successful
Participant prefers to complete VAERS report online
2021-05-13
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-08-12
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-02-11
Health check-in — 12 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-01-21	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-02-11	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

2 call center cases

2 successful

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Free text

Release 2 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-22

Systemic reaction (other): A little bit of facial numbness on the left side. Nothing noticeable physically. I have felt this before under other circumstances.

2021-01-23

Systemic reaction (other): Still feels a little different on the left side of my face near my mouth but nothing I can see or that hurts.

2021-01-24

Systemic reaction (other): Still a little bit of tightness on the left side of my face near my mouth.

2021-01-25

Systemic reaction (other): Still have the tightness in my left cheek. It has never lasted this long but nothing outwardly visible.

2021-01-26

Systemic reaction (other): Still muscle stiffness in my left cheek area.

Healthcare visit (other): As a precaution because there was numbness associated with the stiffness to be on the safe side they recommended the ED. The ED did not find evidence of anything alarming.

2021-01-27

Systemic reaction (other): Still some stiffness in my cheek. Hot compresses and ibuprofen seem to be helping.

Release 3 — day 7, dose 1

2021-01-29

Systemic reaction (other): Facial stiffness is almost gone. I tried intermittent hot compresses and ibuprofen.

Release 6 — day 42, dose 2

2021-03-27

Symptoms: Not sure if related but developed parotitis in the same cheek I had the numbness in after the first shot. Other than that nothing.

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	Emergency care	✓	✓	✓
HCVO	Hypoaesthesia	✓	✓	✓
HCVO	Musculoskeletal stiffness	✓	✓	✓
SD	Hypoaesthesia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Parotitis	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Hypoaesthesia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Muscle tightness	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Musculoskeletal stiffness	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Paraesthesia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Skin tightness	✓	✓	✓

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