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Course: Incidence of Bell Palsy in Patients With COVID-19

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2021-06-24

SARS-CoV-2, and its clinical manifestation as COVID-19, is an ongoing global pandemic. Patients with COVID-19 can present with numerous otolaryngologic conditions, such as Bell palsy (BP). Bell palsy is a unilateral peripheral facial nerve palsy of sudden onset. Several case reports and series have described peripheral facial nerve palsies associated with COVID-19.1 In addition, since the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization of several COVID-19 vaccines, there have been media reports of BP associated with vaccination.2 Such concerns could erode vaccine confidence and exacerbate public hesitancy to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine. We used data from a large health research network to estimate the incidence of BP in patients with COVID-19 vs individuals vaccinated against the disease.


Educational Objective
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