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Report #2872404

Received Nov 12, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Male
Age
81 yrs
State
PA
Recovered
Unknown
Vaccinated
Oct 2, 2025
Onset
Nov 1, 2025
Days to onset
30
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
COVID19COVID19 (COVID19 (PFIZER-BIONTECH))PFIZER\BIONTECH1——

Symptoms (3)

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2 testVaccination failure

Symptom narrative

tested positive for COVID; tested positive for COVID; This is a spontaneous report received from a Consumer or other non HCP, Program ID:. An 81-year-old male patient received BNT162b2 omicron (lp.8.1) (COMIRNATY (2025-2026 FORMULA)), on 02Oct2025 as dose 1, single (Batch/Lot number: unknown) at the age of 81 years for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. Vaccination history included: Pfizer vaccines (gotten every Pfizer COVID vaccine/ booster shots), for Covid-19 immunization. The following information was reported: VACCINATION FAILURE (medically significant), COVID-19 (medically significant) all with onset Nov2025, outcome "unknown" and all described as "tested positive for COVID". The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: SARS-CoV-2 test: (Nov2025) positive. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of vaccination failure, covid-19. Clinical Course: The report was about a male patient, who tested positive for COVID and was prescribed Paxlovid". The patient stated "My wife and I are in our early 80s, and we do everything to avoid getting sick and somehow, I got COVID. I thought it was just a regular head cold over the weekend, and, you know. all the symptoms, but then I got worse. So finally, I called up my physician and my PCP, and he recommended, I don't even know what he recommended, to be honest with you, but I went to pick it up at the pharmacy wearing a N95 mask and everything, I don't wanna make anyone else sick..." When advised of the programs available, withheld stated, "My wife, One of the reasons that I'm so concerned is she's having surgery, and I don't want her, obviously, to get COVID, and cause any problems with the surgery, I mean, she's been waiting for this surgery for a couple of months." When asking for information to be repeated, withheld stated, "I'm a little hard of hearing". When discussing eligibility requirements, withheld stated, "I haven't worked in 20 years". Later in the call, patient stated, "My wife, and I have been getting Pfizer COVID shots from, I guess, 2020, I mean, we've gotten every Pfizer COVID vaccine. Everyone, I mean, booster shots, and everything because we're concerned, and the last one that we got was, I think, 02Oct. We went to a withheld Pharmacy, and we got the COVID vaccination, Pfizer COVID vaccination. But, I guess, I called the doctor, and I said, 'How come I got COVID, if a little over a month ago I got the Pfizer Vaccination?' He said, "Well, the vaccination keeps you from getting it more seriously. But, it doesn't protect you from getting COVID at all'. All of our vaccinations, our Pfizer COVID vaccinations, going back probably to 2020". No follow-up attempts are possible. Batch/lot number is not provided, and it cannot be obtained.

Lab data

Test Date: 202511; Test Name: SARS-CoV-2 test; Test Result: Positive