Kassidi Kurill, 39, died on February 5, four days after taking the second dose of the Moderna injection.
The woman from Ogden, Utah, had no known preexisting health conditions.
However, the Utah Department of Health’s chief medical examiner Dr Erik Christensen said Kurill’s death was just “temporally related” to the second Moderna dose.
“We don't have any evidence that there are connections between the vaccines and deaths at this point,” Christensen he told Fox News.
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He added that proving that the vaccine caused Kurill’s death would be difficult unless it was an anaphylaxis case, meaning sudden death.
'Healthy' single mom, 39, who 'died of multiple organ failure' after Moderna Covid vaccine 'did NOT die from jab' (thesun.co.uk)
After further review:
The COVID-19 vaccine did not factor in the death of a West Point woman whose passing days after getting her second inoculation shot prompted questions from her family, according to health officials.
The Utah Department of Health and the Office of Medical Examiner, or OME, issued a statement Thursday saying it had investigated the deaths of people who had recently taken the vaccine. After conducting the probes, the statement said, investigators found no links between the vaccine and any deaths.
“The OME has determined there have been NO DEATHS caused by the COVID-19 vaccines to date in Utah. The OME is committed to investigating any deaths that fall under its jurisdiction where decedents had recently received the COVID-19 vaccine,” the statement read.
Utah health officials say COVID-19 vaccine hasn't factored in any deaths | Health Care | standard.net
It's pretty far fetched that a healthy 39-year old woman gets the shot, begins feeling ill immediately, dies within 4 days, and is still determined that "
the vaccine didn't contribute to the death".
Here's the real crux of it, later on in the story:
Thursday’s statement seemed to reference the news stories about Kurill, warning against reporting on such things prematurely. “To that end, we call on members of the media to wait for all the facts to be known prior to reporting information that could lead to undue diminished confidence in these life-saving vaccines,” said the statement.
The Utah Department of Health and OME statement said officials will investigate reports of serious side effects. “Public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine is critical, and providing absolute transparency on the vaccine’s side effects is our goal,” it said.
The media and officials are concerned primarily about instilling confidence in the vaccines. Transparency about the side effects seems secondary, at best.
There were 3 other instances of deaths of allegedly healthy people in Utah who died after their vaccines. Similarly, all have been determined to be only "temporally related". The others were all older, and i haven't been able to find any additional information about the specifics of those cases, so i can't comment as to whether they were likely or even potentially vaccine related.
I acknowledge that the deaths from the vaccines are (extremely) rare. However, when they don't classify someone who a) was healthy, b) immediately got sick after taking the vaccine, and c) died in short order as "a death that the vaccine contributed to", it calls the statistics they provide about the safety of vaccines into question.
