She asked me about when we were going back to school so her son could get

A parent of one of my students told me to go fuck myself.
She asked me about when we were going back to school so her son could get a better education for his IEP services in person. I mentioned that most teachers would go back after getting the COVID vaccine, and then we had a misunderstanding — she thought I wanted her son to get the vaccine. She told me there was no way in hell her son was going to get the COVID vaccine because he was going to get facial paralysis, or Bell’s palsy, from the vaccine. No one in her family was going to get vaccinated.

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I wish I could say it’s the first time I heard fears of facial paralysis from the COVID vaccine, but it wasn’t. I show a little bit of CNN 10 Minute News to start most of my classes, and many of my students mentioned facial paralysis on one side of the face you can get from the COVID vaccine, and I was surprised to hear it, but we used it as an instructional moment. It was otherwise known as Bell’s palsy. I had my students look up “COVID and Bell’s palsy” and pull up the first search result — an article from Nina Shapiro at Forbes that documented FDA reviews of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
In the Moderna group, four out of 30,000 individuals reported facial paralysis, and four out of 43,000 individuals in the Pfizer group developed facial paralysis.
So there’s essentially a .001%, or 1/10,000 chance of getting facial paralysis. I did not sign up as an educator to be a pro-vaccine advocate. But I do see it as important for any educator to fight misinformation. In 2020, the chances of getting killed by COVID-19 were higher — about one in every 1,000 people was killed by the virus.
Bell’s palsy, according to John’s Hopkins Medicine, is an unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis. It comes from damage to the 7th cranial nerve and usually occurs on one side of the face or head. The causes are not known — Bell’s palsy usually comes on suddenly, and leads to the drooping appearance of the facial muscles. Some see the facial droop as a sign of a stroke, and Shapiro notes that the facial droop that comes from a stroke looks similar.
But it isn’t more common from the COVID-19 vaccine.
“In both groups of vaccine trial participants, the rate (1 in 10,000) was commensurate with the incidence of sudden facial paralysis in the general population,” Shapiro says.
Snopes says there’s no evidence of the vaccine leading to the development of Bell’s palsy. But that did not stop many social media users on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms to point out the selective statistic that four people in the Pfizer group developed Bell’s palsy.
Some viral videos have also contributed to the misinformation. According to Dan Evon at Snopes, an unverified video of a woman claiming to be a nurse, Khalilah Mitchell, went viral on 4chan, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The woman, who said she was a registered nurse in Nashville, Tennessee, claims she developed Bell’s palsy a few days after receiving the COVID vaccine.
“Please, America, they do not care about us. Please do not take this vaccination,” she says in the video.