Medical Case Reports

79-year old female, resident of a retirement home in Maple Ridge of British Columbia    with history of  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and diabetes   received a Moderna vaccine. Ten minutes later, she was having a hard time breathing. Soon she was unconscious. A nurse administered two EpiPens – one in a leg, and one in an arm, but they couldn’t save her.  She was gone in 15 minutes.  It had been a severe anaphylactic shock, despite the fact that she had never had an allergic reaction in the past.  Her daughter is  one of the first people in Canada to be compensated for a family member’s death under Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program.  The program started in June of 2021. So far it has 774 claims, eight claims have been already approved by the program’s medical review board. REFERENCES https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/maple-ridge-woman-compensated-for-mothers-death-from-covid-19-vaccine/ https://canadatoday.news/bc/m...

For 60 years, a dozen of high-income countries provides some form of compensation for injuries and deaths following vaccination.  The injury support programs worldwide are starting to pay the victims of COVID-19 vaccines.  A 91-year-old Japanese woman died  from an acute allergic reaction and acute myocardial infarction after getting vaccinated. She h ad underlying conditions, including a cerebral ischemic attack and hypertension, which could have been related to her death.  An expert subcommittee of the health ministry assessing the health damage caused by COVID-19 vaccinations approved the payment for her family on July 25, 2022. Nine cases have been screened for eligibility for lump-sum death benefits after receiving a COVID-19 shot. Eight cases have been put on hold, and this is the first time the relief system was applied to a post-COVID-19 vaccination death. REFERENCES Payout for post-vaccination death approved for 1st time | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking Ne...

The Accident Compensation Corporation ( ACC ) of New Zealand has accepted 987 claims for injuries relating to the Covid-19 vaccine, and 68% of those are women. Between the beginning of New Zealand’s vaccine program in February 2021 and April 2, 2022, ACC received 2522 claims, with 987 being accepted, and 297 are still pending. During this period, ACC paid out $1.12 million in compensation.  ACC had accepted 186 claims related to allergic reactions, 103 claims for sprains, 102 claims for contusions. There were 77 accepted claims for cardiac injury, such as myocarditis or pericarditis. In terms of age, the group that lodged the greatest number of claims were those in the 45-49 age bracket. Ethnicity data showed 71% of claims lodged with ACC were from Pākehā, and 9% Māori. Of the 1238 rejected claims, 973 were turned down because ACC deemed there was no injury, and in 119 cases there was no causal link to the vaccine. Three claims have been made for fatal injury – all due to myocardit...

A New Zealand man has died on November 17, 2021, after the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine 'probably' caused a rare heart problem, authorities have revealed. This happened less than two weeks after taking his first dose on November 5.  A preliminary postmortem examination identified myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle, as the likely cause of death and New Zealand's Covid-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board said the issue was 'probably' brought on by the jab. He started feeling 'flutters' a few hours after having his first dose of the vaccine but dismissed the symptoms as stress-related because he was in the process of selling and buying a house as well as planning a wedding. Around 3am on November 17, the couple decided to go to hospital for 'reassurance' but he collapsed while getting ready to go in the bathroom and was later pronounced dead.    The death is only New Zealand's second linked to a known but rare side effect fro...