Mitzi Lee v. HHS - Influenza, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) / Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and Bell's palsy (2025)
Case summary [AI summaries can sometimes make mistakes]
On October 28, 2020, Mitzi Lee filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on November 11, 2018 caused acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a form of Guillain-Barre syndrome, and Bell's palsy. The public entitlement ruling identifies her as an adult petitioner but does not state her exact age.
Respondent conceded entitlement in a Rule 4(c) report, stating that Ms. Lee satisfied the criteria in the revised Vaccine Injury Table and the Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation and had met the legal prerequisites for compensation.
Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran found entitlement on April 19, 2021.
The live staging text also includes a later public damages docket entry originally filed on November 10, 2025, indicating that a damages decision awarded compensation, but the extracted text for that later PDF contains page headers without the body of the decision. Because the damages reasoning and dollar amount are not readable in the staged text reviewed, this redo preserves the source-supported compensated status but does not invent an award breakdown.