Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Pain in extremity, Pruritus, Rash papular, Throat tightness, Vaccination site bruising
Clinical narrative: throat close; soreness in her arm; bruise around the injection site; red spots that appear to look similar to bug bites all over her body; Caller states that the spots are itchy but not painful, like they come and go in terms of itchiness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A 69-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE; Solution for injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 24Feb2021 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunization. The patient medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. The patient experienced throat close, soreness in her arm, bruise around the injection site on, red spots that appear to look similar to bug bites all over her body, caller states that the spots are itchy but not painful, like they come and go in terms of itchiness on an unspecified date. It was reported that, The caller stated she got the first vaccine and thinks she is having a reaction. She got the first injection on Wednesday, 24Feb2021 and at some point after that she became aware of her symptoms. "At first I wasn't sure of, what I was thinking were bites, so I wasn't concerned at first but they kept coming." She was not sure if they started after the vaccine. She now has about 30 of "them." Even one right directly on the injection site and it is the only one that looks like a bite and has a hole in the middle where the needle went it. She kept getting them and didn't feel like she was being bitten. When she touched it it would become itchy and now has a bunch of them, mostly on her torso, a few on her thighs, and some on her arms and neck. She doesn't call it a rash because it is not concentrated and they feel a little more like bites but she doesn't feel like she is being bitten. She has never felt a bite. She is concerned about the 2nd dose. She heard the side effects are worse for the second dose. A friend was reading about hives and how it can make your throat close. These seem kind of random. She is concerned if the second dose will be worse. Is it advisable to do something different about the second one? She asked if she should have it at a medical facility and not a drive-up place? Caller got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine last Wednesday, 24Feb2021. Caller states that sometime after that, she had soreness in her arm, but she expected that. But caller states that she started having these, what she thought was bug bites, and she didn't think much of them at first, and she certainly hadn't connected them to the vaccine, and she is still not sure that it is connect ed, but the timing is a little rough. Caller states that typically, with a bug bite, she will scratch it and it is gone, and she thought these must have been mosquitos as it is getting warmer, but in a couple days, the caller had 20-25 bites, but she had been unaware of being bitten, and the spots had nothing in the center like a bite might have. Caller states the only one that had anything in the center, was the one that appeared on her injection site and there was a hole in the middle where the needle had went in. Caller also states that there was a bruise around the injection site. So caller started thinking that maybe these were not bites at all. Caller states that now, she probably has about 30 of them in different parts of body. Caller states that they don't strike her as being a rash, because they are not concentrated in a location. Caller states that the spots are itchy but not painful, like they come and go in terms of itchiness. Caller is wondering if there may be a connection The outcome of all the events was unknown.   No follow-up attempts are possible. Information about lot/batch number cannot be obtained.