Vaccination is ruled out as cause of death in the NorCal man who had COVID-19, officials say
PLACER COUNTY, California. – Authorities determined that the coronavirus vaccine at the beginning of the month was not a contributing factor to the death of a man in Northern California, authorities said Saturday.
“Clinical investigation and laboratory results have determined that the COVID-19 vaccine was excluded as a contributing factor in the death of the individual,” the Sheriff’s Office in Placer County wrote in a Facebook post.
Last week, the sheriff’s department reported that a man died hours after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, although they did not specify which vaccine the person had received.
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Authorities say the 64-year-old man was employed as a health care worker at a facility in Placer County. He started complaining about side effects within ten minutes after vaccination, which led to the sheriff’s decision to notify the public of the investigation.
The department said on Saturday that they learned during their investigation that he was not only diagnosed with COVID-19, but that he also had underlying health problems and that he had symptoms of the disease when the vaccine was administered.
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“We would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for our agency’s Facebook comments after first notifying the community of this incident,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. “We realize how they were received by the public, and that should not have happened.”
An investigation is still underway in Southern California after a health worker in Orange County died four days after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. The coroner said Tim Zook’s cause was unconvincing for the time being and that further toxicological tests would take months. Zook, 60, worked as an X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana.
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