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Acute pancreatitis is a sudden-onset, reversible inflammatory process of the pancreas presenting as a spectrum of clinical disease. It is not necessarily a rare disease, even in children and adolescents, and may be life-threatening if it is severe. Therefore, acute pancreatitis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in children, and appropriate treatment should be started promptly. This is a disease process with multiple triggers that may cause activation of proteases within the pancreas. The causes are more varied in children than in adults. In about 13% to 34% of childhood cases, the etiology is unknown, but gall bladder disease, trauma, multisystem disease, and drugs account for most identified causes.1 In this report, we are presenting a case of acute pancreatitis in a 14-year-old female occurring acutely and shortly after the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine (herein referred to as “COVID vaccine”). By reporting this case, our goal is to highlight the possible effects of this vaccine in the pediatric population.