Mexican doctor hospitalized after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

Mexican officials say they are investigating the case of a 32-year-old female doctor hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The doctor, whose name has not been released, has been the state’s public hospital north of Nuevo Leon after experiencing seizures, difficulty breathing and a rash. “The initial diagnosis is encephalomyelitis,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement released Friday evening. Encephalomyelitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. could not be reached immediately for comment. More than 126,500 people have died from COVID-19 in Mexico. The country began distributing the first set of COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare workers on December 24.