Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technician at the South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, started to have breathing problems and an upset stomach just hours after the second injection was given, according to the newspaper.
He died days later, on Saturday.
Zook’s family said he had high blood pressure and was slightly overweight, but he was an advocate for the vaccine.
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The Orange County coroner’s office said it was investigating the man’s death, adding that if there is a correlation with the vaccine, he will notify the OC Health Agency.
Responding to growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States is increasing deliveries to pressured states in the next three weeks and hopes to provide enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or early autumn.
Biden, calling the effort a “war effort”, said the government was working to buy an additional 100 million doses of each of the two approved vaccines against coronavirus. He acknowledged that states in recent weeks have been wondering how much vaccine they will receive from one week to the next.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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