COVID-19 Moderna Vaccine and Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism: Case Report

Abstract

The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created many problems in the entire world whether the disease itself, whether fighting back with limited treatment options and prevention tools. Owing to the escalating daily death rates from COVID-19, the development of a vaccine against this new disease was quite fast that the first authorized vaccine got approval less than a year after the onset of the pandemic. Data report different side effects of new COVID-19 vaccines including venous and arterial thrombotic events, vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia, vaccine-induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia, and immune thrombocytopenia. Our case report highlights bilateral pulmonary embolism, six days after the first dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (Moderna) in a healthy gentleman.