Age: 64.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Rhinorrhoea, Vaccination site pain
Clinical narrative: more tired; Weakness; increased heart rate; Diarrhea; soreness at the injection site; Runny nose; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable Nurse (patient). A 64-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine), intramuscularly on 15Jan2021 at single dose into the left arm for COVID-19 prophylaxis. Medical history included asthma; blood pressure abnormal (she takes blood pressure medication); palpitations at times; having mild chest discomfort, had experienced this before, that she was attributing to her wearing a mask, she wore 2-3 masks; stated that she had Covid once and she did not want it again. Concomitant medications included some blood pressure medication, and salbutamol (ALBUTEROL) inhaler periodically. Caller is a LPN nurse that was calling about the Covid-19 vaccine and reported that she received it Friday 15Jan2021 and just wanted to report some mild side effects. Caller clarified that she was more tired, had weakness, had diarrhea for 2 days, increased heart rate, and a runny nose, soreness at the injection site . She stated that she was not in a lot of distress. More tired started from 17Jan2021 and soreness at the injection site started from 16Jan2021. Weakness started from 17Jan2021: She stated that went home straight from work and went to the couch and slept about 6 hours. She had been up since 0300 and it was almost 1200 now. She stated that her energy level and weakness was pretty good right now. Diarrhea started from 16Jan2021: She said that she had the urgency to go and it was definitely soft and foul like when you had the flu. She stated that she has had it once since this morning. It was semisolid. Increased heart rate started from 17Jan2021: she felt palpitations at times. She said that she did not know if they were related, but stated that they were aggravating yesterday. She stated that she took blood pressure medication. She stated that she used a inhaler albuterol. She was using her inhaler periodically and said that it could be because of the albuterol inhaler. Runny nose started from 15Jan2021: Runny nose started about 8-10 hours after her injection. Stated that it was not bad, she would just have to blow her nose really good every so often. She said that she has not had to blow her nose today since she had been up. She said that the vaccine was sitting on the table and they just told her it was the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. She did not have her vaccination card with her at the time of the call. The patient had recovered from weakness on 18Jan2021, recovered from increased heart rate and soreness at the injection site on 17Jan2021; she was recovering from more tired, runny nose, and she had not recovered from diarrhea. Reporter seriousness for increased heart rate, runny nose and soreness at the injection site was not serious. The reporter (nurse) considered the events more tired, weakness, diarrhea, runny nose and soreness at the injection site were related to bnt162b2, and relatedness of bnt162b2 to reaction increased heart rate was unknown.  Information on the lot/ batch number has been requested.