A Florida middle-aged doctor has died two weeks after receiving his first dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, which gave rise to a rare blood disorder. The CDC and local officials have opened an investigation into his death.
Dr Gregory Michael – a 56-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist who has run his own practice at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach for more than a decade – died late last week, 16 days after the vaccine that Pfizer and BioNTech developed jointly developed, was taken.
Local health officials said Friday that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the Florida Department of Health and the Miami-Dade Office are investigating the exact cause of Michael’s death, which is related to a rare condition affecting the body’s body. influence. ability to clot blood.
“The cause of death is pending completion of the studies conducted by the medical examiner and the disease control centers,” said the director of the office, Darren Caprara, in an email to the media. He added that while an autopsy was done on Tuesday, “The case is still under investigation, so nothing has been settled” and that a connection with the vaccine has not been ruled out.
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A CDC representative separately told local media that the agency would do so “Evaluate the situation as more information becomes available and provide timely updates on what is known and all necessary actions.”
The doctor was said to have been healthy before his death on Sunday, and his wife describes him as “Very healthy” in a Facebook post, while his own website remarked that he was an avid big fisherman and a certified diver.
Pfizer, meanwhile, said it was “The case is being actively investigated,” admits that Michael died of a “Highly unusual clinical case of severe thrombocytopenia,” the blood clotting condition, but noticed that it does not believe “There is any direct connection with the vaccine.”
So far no related safety signals have been identified in trials or vaccinations.
Although the Pfizer / BioNTech barrier has removed security and efficiency barriers in a number of countries and gained official authorization, the vaccination has sometimes been linked to the alarming reports of side effects in recent weeks, such as two nursing home residents in Norway who died days after taking their first dose. Like Michael’s case, officials are still investigating whether the deaths were related to the vaccine. Meanwhile, authorities in Portugal have reportedly denied that a similar sudden death of an otherwise ‘perfectly healthy’ doctor was somehow linked to her taking it.
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