{"id":1698,"date":"2021-08-10T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2021-08-10T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:32:03","slug":"bells-palsy-and-sars-cov-2-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Bell\u2019s palsy and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: 24 FEB 2021\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(21)00076-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Lancet<\/a><strong>\u00a0Ozonoff et al.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">There is a possible increased risk of developing Bell\u2019s palsy in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients, but the rate was extremely low (7 cases in 40,000 participants vaccinated), and was not statistically significantly different than the rate seen in the placebo recipients. This condition usually self-resolves. Preventing the risk of COVID-19 infection with vaccination greatly outweighs the incredibly small and less severe risk of Bell\u2019s palsy, but this finding signals a potential issue that should be monitored in vaccine recipients moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/ncrc.jhsph.edu\/research\/bells-palsy-and-sars-cov-2-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ncrc.jhsph.edu\/research\/bells-palsy-and-sars-cov-2-vaccines\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: 24 FEB 2021\u00a0\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Ozonoff et al. There is a possible increased risk of developing Bell\u2019s palsy in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients, but the rate was extremely low (7 cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,43,761,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adverse-event-reporting","category-bells-palsy","category-concerns","category-vaccine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}