ANKARA
A woman in the US state of Utah died four days after receiving her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, local media reported Wednesday.
Kassidi Kurill, a 39-year-old single mother, received the second dose on Feb. 1 and died on Feb. 5, local broadcaster 2News said in a story about vaccine side effects.
While her autopsy results are pending, Kurill’s family told the news channel that she had no known health problems or pre-existing conditions.
Her condition started to worsen a day after the injection, and she went to a local hospital three days later, the report said.
“They took a blood test and came back immediately and said she was very sick and her liver was not working,” her father told the news channel.
Kurill was transferred to a trauma center in the town of Murray for a liver transplant, but her condition deteriorated and she died on Friday morning, the report said.
Side effects from vaccines are common, but resulting deaths are rare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
As of March 8, more than 92 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in the US, and VAERS received only 1,637 reports of death – 0.0018% – among people who received an injection.
“To date, VAERS has not detected any patterns of cause of death that would indicate a safety concern with COVID-19 vaccines,” the CDC said on its website.
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