Age: 41.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Ageusia, COVID-19, Chest X-ray, Cough, Decreased appetite
Clinical narrative: He tested positive for Covid on 30Mar2021; bad cough; severe fatigue; lost his sense of taste; loss of appetite; everything tasted like metal; Lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks; feeling sick; inflammation; This is a spontaneous report from contactable consumer (patient's mother) via Pfizer sponsored program.  A 41-year-old male patient received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE (age at vaccination 41 years), Solution for injection) via unknown route of administration, in the left arm on 23Mar2021 at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included asthma, the reported stated that it was quite scary. Concomitant medications were not reported. On 24Mar2021, the patient had bad cough couldn't stop coughing for 2 weeks, it was awful and the patient was a nonsmoker and he sounded like someone who had been smoking for 70 years. It was a deep horrible cough. He was afraid to get the second shot, and she doesn't want him to be afraid if the symptoms weren't from a reaction and the patient went to the emergency room and they sent him back. She almost lost the patient as an infant with aspiration pneumonia and had severe fatigue which had gone better just in the last day or 2. The reporter had minor symptoms, but her son's symptoms progressed to the point where they told him he had to get a COVID test. The patient was not feeling right beyond 48 hours and was still thinking it was a reaction from the shot. On 30Mar2021, the patient tested positive for COVID. On an unknown date in 2021, the patient started loss of appetite almost right away a couple days after he got the vaccine. He must have had COVID at the same time. Patient was gaining his appetite back. Patient had lost his sense of taste too. Patient had also lost her sense of taste and her sense of smell. He just said that everything tasted like metal. Nothing tastes normal it was the same for her as well. His appetite was coming back, and his cough was subsiding. The patient had inflammation, which was treated with steroids and inhaler and the patient was little overweight and lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks, feeling sick. The reporter asked 4 different doctors and got 4 different answers. Her son was exposed to COVID through his children from school. They had closed the classroom because the teacher had COVID. No one else in the house was positive. On 08Apr2021, (Yesterday), the patient felt a little better which was a blessing. She thinks he was getting better due to the medicine from the pulmonologist. He got a pulmonologist to have a virtual visit and they gave him steroids and an inhaler which has helped and just starting to get a little better. The patient was due for his second dose of the vaccine on 13Apr2021, but she doesn't know if it was okay for him to get it now. The patient had chest X-ray was negative and the patient did not have pneumonia. The outcome of the event cough, fatigue, ageusia, decreased appetite, dysgeusia, was recovering and the other events COVID-19, weight decreased, malaise was unknown.    No follow-up attempts are possible. Information about batch/lot number could not be requested