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GrumpyJoe [S] 7 points ago +8 / -1

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Medical Examiner Not Jumping to Conclusions After Utah Mom Dies Following COVID-19 Vaccination BY KATABELLA ROBERTS March 12, 2021 Updated: March 12, 2021

A Utah medical examiner on March 12 said there is not yet any evidence to suggest a connection between a death following a COVID-19 vaccination.

Kassidi Kurill, a 39-year-old mother of one from Ogden, received the vaccine due to her work as a surgical tech for several plastic surgeons. She received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine on Feb. 1. She had no underlying medical conditions.

Just four days after receiving the second dose of the vaccine, Kurill passed away. Her family believe her death may be directly linked to the vaccine.

However, medical experts are warning the public not to jump to conclusions and have suggested that there is no indication that receiving the vaccine may result in death.

Dr. Erik Christensen, Chief Medical Examiner for the Utah Department of Health, told Fox News that Kurill’s second dose of the vaccine and her death are only “temporally related.”

“We don’t have any evidence that there are connections between the vaccines and deaths at this point,” he said. “We don’t have any indication of that.”

Christensen said side effects such as fever-like symptoms from the vaccine are to be expected but how an individual responds to the vaccine will ultimately be determined by their biology.

“Certainly, there are side effects of a vaccine that are directly linkable to the vaccine and what’s going on in your body,” Christensen said. “You know, the pain in the arm … the fever-like symptoms related to your immune response to what was put into you. Those kinds of things clearly happen.”

Christensen added that while cases involving death after the vaccine are worth investigating, until health officials know all the results, it’s just “speculation.”

According to local news channel KUTV, her family said that Kurill “had more energy” than most people around her and was a happy person with no known underlying health problems. But in the days after receiving the vaccine, she became sick and displayed symptoms such as soreness at the shot location.

She also complained that she couldn’t urinate despite drinking plenty of fluids. She improved slightly the next day but then her condition worsened; she said she had headaches, felt nauseated, and still couldn’t urinate. By Friday, Kurill was dead.

“I didn’t really cry when my dad died. I cry a lot for her,” her father, Alfred Hawley, a former fighter pilot in the Air Force, told the outlet. “She was the one who promised to take care of me.”

As of March 12, more than half a million people in Utah have been partially vaccinated, while 339,743 have been fully vaccinated, according to figures from coronavirus.utah.gov. Utah’s population is roughly 3.3 million people.

The Food and Drug Administration requires that vaccination providers report any deaths after COVID vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Report System (VAERS), which was put in place in 1990 to capture unforeseen reactions from vaccines.

On the VAERS database, there are four deaths reported involving Utah residents. One of those four deaths matches the age description of Kurill, while the other three were all in their 80s.

“To date, VAERS has not detected patterns in cause of death that would indicate a safety problem with COVID-19 vaccines,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on its website.

In a statement to Fox News, the Utah Department of Health said that the Office of the Medical Examiner will “investigate any death where the COVID-19 vaccine is mentioned on the death certificate.”

“There is no evidence COVID-19 vaccines have caused any deaths in Utah. Reports of adverse reactions and death following vaccination do not necessarily mean the vaccine caused the reaction or death. Reports of concern are verified and undergo scientific study. The CDC also follows up on any report of death to request additional information and learn about what occurred and to determine whether the death was a result of the vaccine or unrelated.”

An autopsy report on Kurill is pending.

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Roadpower 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thank you, I was just about to say...

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anon2309011 1 point ago +1 / -0

“There is no evidence COVID-19 vaccines have caused any deaths in Utah.

Hmm where have I heard language like that before?

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TrumpAndChange 7 points ago +7 / -0

Hilarious the cautiousness applied to the vaccine deaths, yet everything is a covid death so long as you’ve ever tested positive

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Roadpower 4 points ago +4 / -0

She had no underlying medical conditions.

She had no underlying medical conditions.

She had no underlying medical conditions.

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comakevin76 4 points ago +4 / -0

She died from it. Get fucking over it and if you do not like the truth. Yeah, I am nice like that. The sick fucks shall have their day.

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13ABNRGR 3 points ago +3 / -0

Since its the head of the utah dept of health speaking and not her treating physicians, is all you need to know.

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blubberdong 3 points ago +3 / -0

Dude knows he'll be on a slab next to her if he badmouths the ccp vaccine.

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Dialectic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Like how you don’t jump to conclusions on labeling covid deaths? Fucking scum

Our county is populated with shit tier trash

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Trumpdidit 1 point ago +1 / -0

UMMKAY, so can we assume safely, had she not taken the shot she'd still be a live livable mommy to her children and a living spous to her husband?

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DeplorableSpic3 1 point ago +1 / -0

The paradox being that if you’re one of the many lucky ones that won’t get much symptoms from the disease ... the vaccine won’t affect you much ... ergo protecting you against a disease that won’t affect you

But if you’re one of the unlucky ones that will get a lot of symptoms, the vaccine will give you severe and I guess in some cases ... deadly symptoms... blood clots, anaphylaxis, and pneumonia is how the vaccine and disease kills. Ergo the vaccine won’t help you either.