Nurse Cherry Costales prepares Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at St. John’s Well Child & Family Center on Thursday, January 7, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.
Irfan Khan / Getty ImagesThe COVID-19 vaccine was ruled out as a contributing factor in the death of a man who died hours after being vaccinated in January, he said. The 64-year-old man, who was employed as a health care worker at a facility in Placer County, received the vaccine on Jan. 21 and died the same day.
He complained of side effects within ten minutes of receiving the shot, and the coroner said it was what led to the decision to notify the public of the investigation.
Through the investigation, the office learned “that not only did he diagnose COVID-19 in him, but that he also had underlying health issues and that he was showing symptoms of illness when the vaccine was administered.”
According to the coroner, clinical examination and laboratory results determined that the vaccine was not the cause of death.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that individuals who have already had COVID and fully recovered still need to be vaccinated.
“At present, experts do not know how long someone is protected from becoming ill again after recovering from COVID-19. The immunity that someone gets as a result of an infection, called natural immunity, varies from person to person,” according to the CDC. “Some early evidence suggests that natural immunity may not last very long.”