A team member used a needle and a bottle of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prepare a dose at a vaccination health center in Cardiff, South Wales on December 8, 2020. (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED 12:10 PM PT – Sunday, January 24, 2021
A California resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in December died after receiving a vaccine. The individual died in Placer County, California on Thursday, several hours after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
They reportedly contracted the virus in December and, despite a CDC recommendation not to be vaccinated in 90 days after a positive test, they received the vaccine.
Although it is unclear which vaccine COVID-19 the patient received, health officials said people should not blame the vaccine for death.
“We know that the severe allergic reactions that occur after immunization, the vast majority of them occur 15-30 minutes after immunization, so something that occurred several hours later is probably not the serious allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, that we are concerned about”, Dr. Dean Blumberg said, an infectious disease specialist at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
New @CDCMMWR describes a small number of reports of serious allergic reactions after people received Moderna #COVID-19 vaccine. Providers that administer COVID-19 vaccines must screen recipients and have the necessary supplies and staff ready to deal with these reactions. https://t.co/jm4TOHGwEP pic.twitter.com/gQbuxV3eJc
– CDC (@CDCgov) January 22, 2021
Authorities said several agencies were investigating the death.