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1 vaccination 7 coded responses 7 check-ins 7 free-text entries 7 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 31-35
ZIP prefix: 606 / IL
Registered: 2021-02-10

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

2021-02-02
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-10
Registered in v-safe
2021-02-10
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Bell's palsy, Emergency care — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Be unable to work, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit, Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: Systemic reaction (other): Bells Palsy · Healthcare visit (other): ER on Sat and then follow up today

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-10
Report sent to call center — day 7, dose 1
Be unable to work · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-02-16
Survey response — day 14, dose 1
MedDRA: Asthenia, Bell's palsy, Hypoaesthesia, Paraesthesia, Visual impairment — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to work, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: My legs are often tingly/numb, I have low energy and my vision is not great. I am not sure what is Bells palsy, steroid side effect or vaccine related.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-16
Report sent to call center — day 14, dose 1
Be unable to work · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-02-24
Survey response — day 21, dose 1
MedDRA: Facial paralysis, Hypoaesthesia — Feeling: Poor · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: I am numb in the legs. And I have a second round of facial palsy- same side as the first

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-24
Report sent to call center — day 21, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-02
Survey response — day 28, dose 1
MedDRA: Hospitalisation, Inflammation — Feeling: Poor · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Emergency room or emergency department visit, Hospitalization

Free text: I am in the hospital for the second time after the vaccine. After having an MRI show inflammation, my doctors are wondering if I have ADEM, post vaccine. I am currently admitted on steroids.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-02
Report sent to call center — day 28, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-09
Survey response — day 35, dose 1
MedDRA: Feeling abnormal, Gait disturbance, Hospitalisation, Hypoaesthesia, Nausea, Noninfective encephalitis — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Emergency room or emergency department visit, Hospitalization

Free text: I was in the hospital for 5 days, diagnosed with ADEM post vaccine. I had inflammation of the brain, resulting in numbness, brain fog, unstable walking, and nausea.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-09
Report sent to call center — day 35, dose 1
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-17
Survey response — day 42, dose 1
MedDRA: Burning sensation, Visual impairment — Feeling: Poor · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation, Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Burning sensation in left leg. Field Vision test was off and small gray spots appear at times in vision.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-17
Report sent to call center — day 42, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-07-20
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2021-08-05
Survey response — 6 months, dose 1
MedDRA: Paraesthesia — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Free text: Tingly legs

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-08-05
Report sent to call center — 6 months, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-08-16
Call 1 — Left Voicemail

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-02-02	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

7 call center cases

7 unsuccessful

VAERS report filed, before or during a call: 6

1 wait over 3 months for a first call

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Free text

Release 4 — day 7, dose 1

2021-02-10

Systemic reaction (other): Bells Palsy

Healthcare visit (other): ER on Sat and then follow up today

Release 4 — day 14, dose 1

2021-02-16

Symptoms: My legs are often tingly/numb, I have low energy and my vision is not great. I am not sure what is Bells palsy, steroid side effect or vaccine related.

Release 4 — day 21, dose 1

2021-02-24

Symptoms: I am numb in the legs. And I have a second round of facial palsy- same side as the first

Release 4 — day 28, dose 1

2021-03-02

Symptoms: I am in the hospital for the second time after the vaccine. After having an MRI show inflammation, my doctors are wondering if I have ADEM, post vaccine. I am currently admitted on steroids.

Release 5 — day 35, dose 1

2021-03-09

Symptoms: I was in the hospital for 5 days, diagnosed with ADEM post vaccine. I had inflammation of the brain, resulting in numbness, brain fog, unstable walking, and nausea.

Release 5 — day 42, dose 1

2021-03-17

Symptoms: Burning sensation in left leg. Field Vision test was off and small gray spots appear at times in vision.

Release 9 — 6 months, dose 1

2021-08-05

Symptoms: Tingly legs

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	✓	✓	✓
SD	Asthenia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Bell's palsy	✓	✓	✓
SD	Burning sensation	✓	✓	✓
SD	Facial paralysis	✓	✓	✓
SD	Feeling abnormal	✓	✓	✓
SD	Gait disturbance	✓	✓	✓
SD	Hospitalisation	✓	✓	✓
SD	Hypoaesthesia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Inflammation	✓	✓	✓
SD	Nausea	✓	✓	✓
SD	Noninfective encephalitis	✓	✓	✓
SD	Paraesthesia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Visual impairment	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Bell's palsy	✓	✓	✓

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