A staff member used a dose of needle and a bottle of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 on 8 December 2020 to prepare a dose at a vaccination health center in Cardiff, South Wales. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATE 12:10 PM PT – Sunday, January 24, 2021
A California resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in December has died after receiving a vaccine. The individual apparently died Thursday in Placer County, California, hours after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
They apparently contracted the virus in December, and despite a CDC recommendation not to be vaccinated within 90 days after a positive test, they received the vaccine.
Although it is unclear which COVID-19 vaccine the patient received, health officials said people should not be too quick to blame the vaccine for death.
“We know that the severe allergic reactions that occur after vaccination, the vast majority of which occur 15-30 minutes after vaccination, so something that occurred a few hours later is probably not the severe allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, that we are concerned about. “the dr. Dean Blumberg, Expert Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
New @CDCMMWR describes a small number of reports of severe allergic reactions after receiving the Moderna # COVID-19 vaccine. Vendors giving COVID-19 vaccines should examine recipients and require supplies and personnel to handle these reactions. https://t.co/jm4TOHGwEP pic.twitter.com/gQbuxV3eJc
– CDC (@ CDCgov) 22 January 2021
Authorities said several agencies were investigating the death.