According to the newspaper, Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, had breathing problems and an upset stomach.
He passed away days later, Saturday.
Zook’s family said he has high blood pressure and is slightly overweight, but he is a proponent of the vaccine.
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The Orange County coroner’s office said it was investigating the man’s death, adding that if there was a link to the vaccine, it would notify the OC Health Care Agency.
President Joe Biden, responding to growing frustration over vaccine shortages, announced on Tuesday that the U.S. will increase deliveries to countries in heavy pressure over the next three weeks and expects to reach 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or early fall. must vaccinate.
Biden, who called the pressure “wartime”, said the government was working to buy 100 million doses of each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines. He acknowledged that over the past few weeks, states had left behind how much vaccine they would have from one week to the next.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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