Research on the Correlation between Receiving Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 Vaccine and Getting Facial Paralysis

Ziyuan Zhang

2022

Abstract

COVID-19 vaccines are widely administered to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and prevent serious illness and death after getting infected. Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are administered the most within the United States, and facial paralysis is one of the adverse events found after receiving the vaccines. The primary aim of the paper is to develop a predictive model which uses the features of vaccine receivers to predict whether facial paralysis would emerge as an adverse effect. Four predictive modes trained by undersampled and oversampled data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are developed using logistic regression and decision tree from the last quarter of 2021, and features are selected using chi-square statistics. The four performance metrics (accuracy, recall, precision, and F1 score) indicate the incapability of models in making decisions, which also implies the irrelevance of selected features. However, the associations between selected features and the high-level anxiety of the general public have in receiving vaccines under the pandemic are worth further research and physicians to study and explore for a more comprehensive understanding of the adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines, manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech specifically. This paper finds that four performance metrics indicate these models are not capable of making sensitive predictions, which implies the irrelevance of the selected features and getting facial paralysis after receiving Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. However, the connections between selected features and the huge amount of cases reported within a year reveal the high level of anxiety that the general public has in receiving vaccines under the pandemic.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhang Z. (2022). Research on the Correlation between Receiving Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 Vaccine and Getting Facial Paralysis. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine - Volume 1: ICBB; ISBN 978-989-758-637-8, SciTePress, pages 370-376. DOI: 10.5220/0012021200003633

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icbb22,
author={Ziyuan Zhang},
title={Research on the Correlation between Receiving Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 Vaccine and Getting Facial Paralysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine - Volume 1: ICBB},
year={2022},
pages={370-376},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012021200003633},
isbn={978-989-758-637-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine - Volume 1: ICBB
TI - Research on the Correlation between Receiving Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 Vaccine and Getting Facial Paralysis
SN - 978-989-758-637-8
AU - Zhang Z.
PY - 2022
SP - 370
EP - 376
DO - 10.5220/0012021200003633
PB - SciTePress