Table 1. Characteristics of Patients With New-Onset Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy After Recent Vaccination With the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) Vaccine.

Patient No.	Comorbidities	Laterality	HB gradea	Status at last follow-up
1	None	Right	IV	Partially recovered
2	None	Right	NA	Partially recovered
3	Dyslipidemia	Left	IV	NA
4	Hypertension	Left	IV	NA
5	Hypertension, prostate cancer	Left	NA	NA
6	None	Right	NA	NA
7	Cardiac pacemaker	Left	VI	Partially recovered
8	Dyslipidemia	Right	IV	NA
9	Hypertension, OSA, cochlear Ménière disease	Left	III	Partially recovered
10	None	Right	III	Partially recovered
11	None	Right	NA	Partially recovered
12	Hepatitis C	Right	NA	NA
13	Dyslipidemia, hypothyroidism, thalassemia	Right	III	NA
14	Hypertension, BPH, diabetes	Right	NA	NA
15	Asthma	Right	NA	Partially recovered
16	None	Right	II	NA
17	None	Left	III	Partially recovered
18	Small fiber neuropathy	Right	IV	Partially recovered
19	Diabetes	Right	III	NA
20	None	Left	III	NA
21	None	Left	NA	NA

Abbreviations: BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia; HB, House-Brackmann; NA, not available; OSA, obstructive sleep apnea.

^a Obtained at admission. Scores range from I to VI, with higher scores indicating severe nerve damage.