Nurse Cherry Costales prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at St. John’s Well Child & Family Center on Thursday, January 7, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.
Irfan Khan / Getty ImagesThe COVID-19 vaccine was discarded as a factor that contributed to the death of a man who died several hours after being inoculated in January, Placer County Sheriff-Coroner Division said on Saturday. The 64-year-old man, who worked as a health professional in a facility located in Placer County, received the vaccine on January 21 and died the same day.
He complained of side effects 10 minutes after the injection and the coroner’s office said that was what led to the decision to inform the public about the investigation.
Through investigation, the office found “that not only was he recently diagnosed with COVID-19, he also had underlying health problems and had symptoms of illness at the time the vaccine was administered”.
The clinical examination and laboratory results determined that the vaccine was not the cause of death, said the coroner’s office.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that individuals who have had COVID and fully recovered be vaccinated.
“At the moment, experts don’t know how long someone is protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. The immunity that someone gains from having an infection, called natural immunity, varies from person to person,” according to the CDC. “Some early evidence suggests that natural immunity may not last long.”