Age: 58.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Anosmia, Chills, Pain, Pain in extremity, Quarantine
Clinical narrative: sinus issues; positive COVID-19 test with symptoms; positive COVID-19 test with symptoms; right arm sore; This is a spontaneous report from a Pfizer Sponsored Program. A contactable consumer (patient) reported that a 58-year-old male patient received the first dose of BNT162B2 (lot number: EH9899; Expire Date: 31Mar2021), via an unspecified route of administration, in arm, right upper, on 16Dec2020 11:10 AM at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. The vaccination facility type was hospital. The vaccine was not administered at military facility. Patient's medical history (including any illness at time of vaccination) was none. The patient got ill from all pain medications- from prescription strength pain killers to OTC products such as tylenol, ibuprofen and aspirin. All of them make him sick- experienced hot flashes and nausea. No additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect vaccine. Prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks) was none. The concomitant medication included 2 different blood pressure pills, mentioning Lisinopril, but stated he did not think his blood pressure pills were relevant to what he was experiencing with the COVID-19 Vaccine. A MRI tech (clarified by caller as MRI technologist) at a hospital who received the COVID-19 Vaccine on 16Dec2020 (caller clarified he received the vaccine at 11:10 AM on 16Dec2020). Caller stated on 17Dec2020 he had signs of aches and pains allover, a sore arm (clarified as his right arm), no fever. He also experienced sinus issues and a loss of sense of smell. Clarified his right arm was sore for only a day, his sinus issues started on 20Dec2020, and his loss of the sense of smell gradually started on 22Dec2020. He stated on 23Dec2020 he had a COVID-19 test performed and the test result was positive for the COVID-19 virus. Caller asked since he had the first COVID-19 Vaccine dose, and has now tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, should he get the second COVID-19 Vaccine dose scheduled for 06Jan2021. Patient's Height: 5' 8'' as provided by caller, who stated he has shrunk 1''. No further details provided. Patient's Weight: 169 lbs. as provided by caller, who stated his weight was as of today. Reported he worked an overnight shift, clarifying he was injected with the COVID-19 Vaccine after his overnight shift was finished on the morning of 16Dec2020. He stated he came back to work later in the day on 16Dec2020 to work another overnight shift from 9:00 PM to 7:30AM. He said after he finished is overnight shift on the morning of 17Dec2020, he went home to bed, and woke up around 12:00 PM on 17Dec2020. He said when he woke up, he started to feel aches and pains allover, and after that noticed he was getting chills periodically. Clarified he experienced the aches and pains allover for a couple of days, and then the aches and pains went away. He said he then started to get the feeling a sinus infection was coming on, but he never got a sinus infection. He said the aches, pains, and chills came back. Reported his co-worker received the COVID-19 Vaccine on Saturday, 19Dec2020, clarifying his co-worker did well with the COVID-19 Vaccine. He clarified his employer was concerned that he may have exposed his co-worker to COVID-19 when the two worked together on the overnight shift of 22Dec2020. He said both he and his coworker kept their PPE on the whole time they worked except when the two ate dinner. He said the two of them sat at a round table about 6 feet apart, and took off their masks to eat. He said his partner agreed that the two of them were right at 6 feet apart when the sat at the table to eat dinner, so their employer deemed his coworker as low risk. Reported on 22Dec2020 he had to go back to work, so he was asked for his temperature at the time, which was 98.8 degrees. He did have a flu shot previously. He was instructed as long as he doesn't have a fever over 100 degrees, he can work. The caller said he went to work on 22Dec2020, and read an email from his employer's wellness office. He said the wellness office email spoke about the COVID-19 Vaccine side effects, and instructed employees to contact the wellness office with any COVID-19 Vaccine side effects experienced. He said he left a voicemail with his employer's wellness office explaining exactly what his COVID-19 Vaccine side effects were. He said he instructed his employer's wellness office call him in the afternoon because he was going to go home, go to bed, and wake up at noon on 23Dec2020. He stated he spoke with his employer's wellness office at around 11:30 AM on 23Dec2020, and the wellness office asked for him to go to the hospital, and have a COVID19 test. Caller stated his employer performed a COVID-19 nasal swab test, and on 24Dec2020, he was told he was COVID-19 positive. He said his employer backed up his quarantine start date to 17Dec2020 (the first day he experienced symptoms), and had him follow a 10-day quarantine until 27Dec2020. He stated today, 28Dec2020, was the first day he has been off quarantine. Reported he was not saying he got COVID-19 from receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine, but should he have the second COVID-19 Vaccine injection. Clarified his symptoms were intermittent, and started coming back around 20Dec2020. Reported he was not experiencing any scratchiness in his throat, and his eyes were not watering. He said he has had no cough, no sneezing, and no trouble breathing. He said in general, it felt like something was coming on, saying it was building up, but not getting out. Clarified he had gone back to work on 23Dec2020 to have his COVID-19 nasal swab test performed, and was told by his employer on 24Dec2020 that the COVID-19 nasal swab test was positive. No AE required a visit to emergency room or physician office. The outcome of the event right arm sore was recovered on 18Dec2020 and the other events was unknown.