A staff member used a needle and a bottle of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prepare a dose at a vaccination center in Cardiff, South Wales, on 8 December 2020. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED AT 12:10 PM PT – Sunday, January 24, 2021
A California resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in December died after receiving a vaccine. The person died Thursday in Placer County, California, several hours after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
They reportedly contracted the virus in December and, despite the CDC’s recommendation not to be vaccinated within 90 days of testing positive, received the vaccine.
While it’s not clear what COVID-19 vaccine the patient received, health officials said people shouldn’t be too quick to blame the vaccine’s death.
“We know that severe allergic reactions that occur after vaccination, the vast majority occur between 15 and 30 minutes after vaccination, so something that happened several hours later is probably not the reaction to · Severe allergic, anaphylaxis, which worries us, “said Dr. Dean Blumberg, infectious disease expert at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
New @CDCMMWR describes a small number of reports of severe allergic reactions after people received the Modern # COVID-19[FEMININE vacuna. Els proveïdors que donin vacunes contra el COVID-19 haurien de revisar els destinataris i necessitaran subministraments i personal preparat per gestionar aquestes reaccions. https://t.co/jm4TOHGwEP pic.twitter.com/gQbuxV3eJc
– CDC (@CDCgov) 22 de gener de 2021
Les autoritats van dir que diverses agències estan investigant la mort.