According to a report, a 39-year-old single mother in Utah with no underlying medical condition died four days after receiving her second dose of the Modern COVID-19 vaccine.
Kassidi Kurill, mother of one from Ogden, received the vaccine because of her work as a surgical technician for several plastic surgeons, KUTV reported.
“He was absolutely fine with getting it. In fact, he told us all, ‘Okay, you all have to get it,'” his father, Alfred Hawley, told the dam.
Kurill experienced a sore arm after Moderna’s first blow, but had no other side effects.
But things took a tragic turn after he received his second dose on February 1st.
“He came in early and said his heart was pounding and he felt he needed to get to the emergency room,” Hawley said.
When they arrived at the emergency room, Kurill pulled ahead. Hawley, a retired fighter pilot, told doctors his daughter had just received his second shot.
“They did a blood test and they immediately came back and said I was very, very sick and my liver wasn’t working,” he told KUTV.
Kurill’s older sister, Kristin, who lives in Arizona, said she knew her sister had gone to the hospital, but the speed at which she deteriorated was “so unexpected.”
He thought his sister would get an IV and come home in an hour, but Hawley knew they wouldn’t go home anytime soon.
“It was a total shock, and I was even scared to tell my wife,” he told reporters.
Kurill was soon taken to Murray’s Intermountain Medical Center, a trauma center, as his liver failed and his transplant was believed to be his best chance of survival.
Kristin jumped on the first flight to Utah, but was not allowed to enter the hospital due to coronavirus protocols, so she waited with her 9-year-old sister Emilia’s daughter as the family he expected a miracle.
Kurill’s parents volunteered to donate a portion of their liver, but never had a chance to offer the rescue gift when their daughter’s liver, kidneys, and heart closed.
He died 30 hours after arriving at the hospital.
An autopsy was performed on Kurill’s body, but the state medical cabinet was unable to comment on the case due to privacy laws, according to KUTV.
Dr. Erik Christensen, Utah’s chief forensic doctor, told the station that proving vaccine injuries as a cause of death almost never happen.
“Did the vaccine cause this? I think it would be very difficult to prove it in an autopsy, ”he said.
Christensen said he could only think of one case in which a vaccine could be included as a cause of death in an autopsy report: an immediate case of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction, in which one person died almost instantly after being inoculated.
“Without that, it would be hard for us to say for sure that this is the vaccine,” he said, adding that a more likely outcome would be a lack of responses or an “incomplete autopsy”.
He added: “Almost every vaccine or anything someone treats, when something is injected, has a potential for a negative outcome.”
An autopsy could also identify a cause of death that the family was unaware of, including undiagnosed pneumonia, cancer, or unknown heart disease.
Kurill’s family hopes to get answers, but they realize that they may never know for sure what the life of their loved one claimed.
Although vaccine side effects are common, the resulting deaths are extremely rare, according to a Fox News report.
According to the CDC vaccine adverse event reporting system, approximately 92 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the U.S. between December 14 and March 8.
Of those 92 million, VAERS received 1,637 complaints of deaths (0.0018%) among people who received a punch, the network reported.
“To date, VAERS has not detected any cause-of-death patterns that indicate a safety issue with COVID-19 vaccines,” the CDC says on its website.
Kurill’s daughter – whose father is a civil servant and a member of the National Guard who travels for work – will continue to live with her grandparents.
Emilia, known as Millie, was the one who wanted her mother’s story to be told.
Since then, he has seen his grandfather decide to take his second dose of vaccine.
“Millie was asking me not to,” said Hawley, a 69-year-old boy with diabetes. “There’s always risk.”