Utah’s chief coroner urged the public not to jump to conclusions about the death of a 39-year-old woman, four days after she received the second dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine – insisting there is no evidence that the injection it was linked to his death.
After receiving her second injection on February 1, Kassidi Kurill fell ill and was hospitalized. Four days later, the single mother died in mysterious circumstances.
But Dr. Erik Christensen, chief coroner of the Utah Department of Health, told Fox News that the second dose of the tragic mother and her death are only “temporarily related”.
“We have no evidence that there are any connections between vaccines and deaths at this time,” he insisted. “We have no indication of that.”
Christensen said the side effects of the inoculations are expected, but how people respond to the vaccine will be determined by their biology.
“Certainly, there are side effects of a vaccine that are directly linked to the vaccine and what is happening in your body,” said Christensen. “You know, the pain in the arm … the fever-like symptoms related to your immune response to what was put on you. These kinds of things happen clearly. “
Kurill, who received the vaccine because of his work as a surgical technician, felt pain in his arm after the first dose, but had no other side effects, his father Alfred Hawley told KUTV.
But things took a tragic turn after she received her second dose, when she soon became ill and ended up in a hospital, where doctors determined her liver was failing, Hawley said.
She died 30 hours later.
The Food and Drug Administration requires vaccination providers to report any deaths after injections of COVID-19 to the Adverse Vaccine Reporting System, which shows that there are four reported deaths involving Utah residents, according to Fox News.
One of the four is the same age as Kurill, while the other three were in their 80s, the vehicle said.
The Utah Department of Health told Fox News that the Office of the Medical Examiner will “investigate any deaths in which the COVID-19 vaccine is mentioned on the death certificate.”
However, there is currently no evidence that the jab is dangerous.
“There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines have caused deaths in Utah. Reports of adverse reactions and death after vaccination do not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the reaction or death, ”he said.
“The reports of concern are verified and submitted to scientific study. The CDC also accompanies any reports of death to request additional information and learn about what happened and to determine whether the death was a result of the vaccine or not. “
Christensen said it was worth investigating cases involving post-vaccine deaths, but added that, until we know all the results, it is just “speculation”.
An autopsy was performed on Kurill’s body, but the state coroner’s office was unable to comment on the matter due to privacy laws.