According to the newspaper, Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technologist at South Ana Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, began having respiratory problems and upset stomach a few hours after the second shot was given.
He died days later, on Saturday.
Zook’s family said he had high blood pressure and was a little overweight, but he was an advocate for the vaccine.
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The Orange County Forensic Office said it was 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 the shortage of vaccines, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the United States will increase deliveries to troubled states over the next three weeks and hopes to provide enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of ‘summer or early autumn.
Biden, calling the impetus a “war effort,” said the administration was working to buy an additional 100 million doses of each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines. He acknowledged that states in recent weeks have been left wondering what vaccine they will have from one week to the next.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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