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