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Examining association of COVID-19 vaccination, facial nerve palsy

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

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What The Study Did: Researchers found no association between recent vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine and risk of facial nerve palsy.

Authors: Asaf Shemer, M.D., of the Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel, is the corresponding author.

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