13 Israelis suffered facial paralysis after being vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine
At least 13 Israelis suffered facial paralysis as a side effect after being vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine against the new coronavirus. This is reported by The Jerusalem Post with reference to the country’s Ministry of Health.
Practitioners say this side effect is even more common.
“I walked with this [facial paralysis] for at least 28 hours. I can’t say that now it is completely gone, but apart from that, nothing else bothered me, only the injection site hurt a little, and that’s it,” the person who faced temporary facial paralysis after vaccination Israeli. He wondered whether to get a second vaccination, but urged the rest of the country not to refuse vaccination, as this side effect is quite rare.
Professor Galia Rahav, head of the infectious diseases department at Sheba Hospital, noted that she did not administer the second dose of the vaccine to the patient who suffered facial paralysis. The doctor noted that she could not say for sure what exactly provoked the disease.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health said that the second vaccination should be given only to those people who have already passed all the symptoms of facial paralysis.
Mass vaccination against COVID-19 in the country began on December 19. The first to receive the drug will be medical workers, medical students, as well as Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and heads of municipalities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaku was the first in the country to be vaccinated against the coronavirus with the Pfizer vaccine.