Age: 70.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Cognitive disorder, Feeling abnormal, Somnolence
Clinical narrative: diminished cognitive acuity / mentally out of it / mental acuity may be diminished; he felt a little cloudy headed / a consciousness fog / brain fog; having trouble staying awake; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP). The reporter is the patient.  A 70 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm left, administration date 23Feb2021 13:10 (Lot number: EN6200) at the age of 70 years as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunisation. The patient had no relevant medical history. There were no concomitant medications. The following information was reported: COGNITIVE DISORDER (non-serious) with onset 24Feb2021, outcome "recovered" (26Feb2021), described as "diminished cognitive acuity / mentally out of it / mental acuity may be diminished"; FEELING ABNORMAL (non-serious) with onset 24Feb2021, outcome "recovered" (26Feb2021), described as "he felt a little cloudy headed / a consciousness fog / brain fog"; SOMNOLENCE (non-serious) with onset 24Feb2021, outcome "unknown", described as "having trouble staying awake". Additional information: It was reported that the patient was a driver of a tractor trailer. It was reported that the patient was vaccinated in the left shoulder. In both doses, the patient had next to no symptoms, no headaches, no nausea, no fever, no nothing, but he felt mentally out of it both times. He felt a little out of it the first time, a little bit more out of it on the second dose. It was reported that both times were approximately 1pm. The event mentally out of it with the first COVID vaccine, it started with the first shot on 24Feb2021. This faded away, he does not know the exact date but within 2-3 days. It peaked on the 24Feb2021, diminished on the 25Feb2021 and gone by the 26Feb2021. It was stated by the patient that this was one of the symptoms your mental acuity may be diminished but had no headaches no nothing bad, he noticed that from the first one (first dose), he felt a little bit out of it. He told people that during this interim 3 weeks 4 weeks or whatever, he felt a little cloudy headed. He described his symptoms as a consciousness fog, brain fog, out of it, diminished cognitive acuity with these all being the same as mentally out of it, this was all the same event. The patient also experienced that he was having trouble staying awake with both doses. It was reported that the patient was glad that there were no other tremendous symptoms or a anything like that, anything little more difficult. Usually, he could at any time sit down and fall asleep right away. With the first shot, this event (having trouble staying awake) started 24Feb201 but was not as bad as the second shot; this subsided on 25Feb2021. The patient then clarified he would say it went away at this point but a week later on 01Mar2021 he was not 100% back to normal. The patient had no additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect and had no prior vaccinations within 4 weeks. Patient had no adverse events following prior vaccinations and no family medical history relevant to adverse events.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.