A 39-year-old mother with no underlying health conditions died of multiple organ failure days after receiving a second dose of Moderna’s Covid vaccine.
Kassidi Kurill, from Ogden, Utah, died on February 5 after falling ill and being rushed to hospital. She received her second injection of Moderna on February 1 and started complaining of headaches and nausea the next day.
His family is still awaiting the result of the autopsy, which will determine the cause of death. It is not yet clear whether Moderna’s shot had any role to play in Kurill’s tragic death.
The mother of one of them worked as a surgical technique for plastic surgeons was among the first batch of people qualified to receive the Covid vaccine.
The Utah coroner said he has not registered any vaccine-related deaths so far and said there does not appear to be a link between the deaths of four citizens in Utah – including Kurill – and vaccines.
Kurill’s family said she was healthy and had no pre-existing illnesses before her premature death.
Speaking to Fox News, Kurill’s father, Alfred Hawley, said: ‘She looked healthy as a horse. She had no known underlying conditions.
‘She was healthy, happy and active, the best mother you have ever seen in your life, and then she was so sick that, in less than 12 hours, she got intubated and started breathing.’
After receiving the second dose of the vaccine on February 1, Kurill started complaining the next day about headaches, nausea and an inability to urinate despite drinking fluids.
Her condition improved slightly on February 3, but she worsened the next day and was rushed to the hospital.
When she arrived at the hospital, Kurill started to get sick, her family said.
Hawley added: ‘She came early and said her heart was racing and she felt she needed to go to the ER.
“They did a blood test and immediately came back and said that she was very, very sick and that her liver was not working.”
Kurill was transferred to the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, where doctors decided her liver was failing and tried to make plans for Kurill to have a liver transplant.
Her condition continued to worsen on February 5, to the point where she was unable to speak and her heart and kidneys were paralyzed, Hawley explained.
He said: “It got worse and worse over the course of the day. And at nine o’clock, she passed.
“It was a total shock. I was even afraid to tell my wife. ‘
The family hopes that an autopsy will give them answers about the sudden and shocking death of their loved one.
The FDA requires vaccine providers to report any deaths after a Covid vaccine to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, also known as VAERS.
The Utah Department of Health coroner, Dr. Erik Christensen, said officials have yet to find any connection between the vaccine and the deaths of four Utah residents at the time of receiving the vaccine.
He said proving that the vaccine was the cause of death is very rare, unless there was an immediate case of anaphylaxis, which would be an instant death.
Hawley added that he hopes his daughter’s experience will not discourage others from being vaccinated.
He said: ‘If you have a reaction to that, don’t ignore it. Don’t be stoic and just say, “Oh, I’ll be fine.”
‘Watch. If it persists for more than a day, you should see a doctor. And make sure that you are no longer one in a million.
Kurill’s family set up a GoFundMe campaign to support their nine-year-old daughter, Emilia.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the United States has recorded 29.1 million cases of Covid and 529,000 deaths from the virus. More than 95 million Americans have been vaccinated so far, with government scientists assuring people that all vaccines have been tested vigorously and that they are safe.
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