Age: 76.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Limb injury, Pre-existing condition improved, Therapeutic response unexpected, Vaccination site pain, Wound haemorrhage
Clinical narrative: a little soreness to his arm after injections/ injection site soreness/arm soreness; viral infection warts came off/ one came off and then another started peeling up off his skin/the third one was peeling up at the edges/ Unexpected therapeutic benefit; he pulled up on it and tore it off and it bled a little; This is a spontaneous report from Pfizer-sponsored program from a contactable consumer (Patient). A 76-year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 17Mar2021 (Lot Number: EM9809) at the age of 76 years old as single dose for COVID-19 vaccination. Medical history included Bypass surgery from 2014, stent placement from 2014 (got this within 2 days of his bypass), Diabetic from 2001 and ongoing; viral infection warts on his right arm from 2020 (had been there about a year) that were 3/8 of an inch to a half inch thick, and were always hanging on stuff. The patient's concomitant medication included unspecified medication (patient had been on the same meds for years. No further details provided about his other medications). Caller said he had no recent vaccinations the day of or four weeks prior to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses. Caller had his first dose of the covid-19 vaccine on 17Mar2021, caller stated that he had three big warts on his arm that he was going to have removed at the dermatologist, three days after receiving the vaccine the first wart was gone (Mar2021), the next day the second wart came off and the 3rd day the last wart was still anchored but was pulled off while working on the lawn mower, caller had his second dose (lot number: ER2613) on 07Apr2021. Consumer calling about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot, not to complain, he was actually happy they were gone. Caller clarified that he had viral infection warts on his right arm that were 3/8 of an inch to a half inch thick, and were always hanging on stuff. He said he went to a dermatologist for cancers and showed him those and they said for him to make an appointment to come back for insurance, and that they would probably have to take them off. He said after he got the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose, three days later one came off and then another started peeling up off his skin. He said that the third one was peeling up at the edges after the other one turned loose when he bumped it on the deck, so he pulled up on it and tore it off and it bled a little, but it is gone and hasn't come back, so he was proud of it. He says he didn't know if the warts coming off was because of vaccine, but when he took care of warts before he had them removed in the past or burned off. He said that he wanted to give Pfizer the information in case they could use the same medication to help with getting rid of warts without having them removed. He said he was proud the warts are gone, he didn't know if any others had this reaction to this medication, where their warts come off. He said other than this he just had a little soreness to his arm after injections in Mar2021. He said maybe they can make a cream or something to put on warts to make them come off. He said he didn't know if call handler ever experienced warts like this, but he had some burned off years ago, and they sell a wart remover that was smelly that you have to get on the wart that was an acid. No further details provided about the wart remover. He says maybe the could use the COVID vaccine to develop something with this pur-pose. For viral infection warts came off: Caller said that his warts he first had a while back, he knew they were on there the last time he went to see his dermatologist because he asked about them. He said he usually went to see his dermatologist between October and December at the end of every year, so those warts had been there about a year. He said that he noticed the first wart was gone within 3-4 days after his first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot, and they were all gone within about 5-6 days, they were gone way before he went back for his second dose. He said he thought it was great they were gone. For injection site soreness: Caller said his arm soreness went away within 3-4 days, after the first dose it took 3 days, and after the second shot it took an extra day, so about 4 days. He said he did no treatment for the arm soreness. Caller says that the only thing that his viral warts coming off could be associated with was the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and he was happy that they did come off. Description of complaint: Unexpected therapeutic benefit. No Investigation Assessment. The outcome of the event "a little soreness to his arm after injections/ injection site soreness/ arm soreness" was recovered on an unspecified date, of the other events was unknown.   No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.