The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for use in more than 45 countries including Britain Canada Mexico the United States and the EU. Mexico began distributing the first round of COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare workers on December 24. But the vaccine landed in controversy after a female doctor was hospitalized after receiving its first dose. As reported by Reuters the Mexican doctor experienced seizures difficulty breathing and a skin rash after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The 32-year-old doctor whose name has not been released was admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital in the northern state