Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technician at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, began having trouble breathing and an upset stomach within hours of taking the second blow, according to the newspaper. .
He died days later, on Saturday.
Zook’s family said he had high blood pressure and was slightly overweight, but was a supporter of the vaccine.
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The Orange County law firm said it is investigating the man’s death, adding that if there is a correlation with the vaccine, it will notify the OC Health Care agency.
Responding to growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. is accelerating deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects to deliver enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by in late summer or early autumn.
Biden, calling the impulse a “war effort,” said the administration was working to buy another 100 million doses of each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines. He acknowledged that states in recent weeks have been left to guess how many vaccines they will have from one week to the next.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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