Emily
Editor, Senior Moderator
I wonder how many other cases there are like this. Not many people have money for private autopsies.
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/he...0210307-nejhppci45g6rongf6fbdrx7te-story.html
Virginia officials won?t say why they didn?t do autopsy of Gloucester woman who died after vaccine
By Elisha Sauers
The Virginian-Pilot |
Mar 07, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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Keyes died Jan. 30, shortly after getting a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. She waited about 20 minutes after the shot to be observed by health care providers on site, but soon after reaching her car, had difficulty breathing, then vomited, Jones said.
There a medic gave her epinephrine shots in her leg and arm and medicine through an oxygen mask. An ambulance took her to VCU Tappahannock Hospital, where she died. A hospital physician told Jones that her mother suffered from ?flash pulmonary edema,? a condition that caused her lungs to rapidly fill with fluid.
Jones said even before state officials had her mother?s postmortem preliminary test results, the medical examiner?s office told her they would not perform an autopsy.
She had tried to persuade them otherwise ? to consider other tests and look at her heart and tissues ? to gather more information on what happened in the last hours of her life. They told her nothing could be gleaned from an autopsy that would relate the vaccine to her death, she said.
?They said that their primary objective was to determine if she was having an allergy or not,? Jones said.
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For Jones, the speed of the vaccine rollout and her mother?s death compel her to search for answers. She has wondered whether her mother could have survived if doctors and pathologists understood more about how people?s medical history and conditions play into a severe reaction. She hopes people with underlying health conditions will talk to their doctors before getting the vaccine.
?There?s a lot of things that need to improve,? she said. ?Because of the millions they say are faring well with response to the vaccine, I think they?re just not concerned about a small minority that is being affected in such a rough way.?...
https://www.virginiamercury.com/202...tigation-into-womans-death-after-vaccination/
Officials should have been more forthcoming on investigation into woman?s death after vaccination
By Roger Chesley-
March 12, 2021
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The state eventually determined Keyes, a minister, died of complications of COVID-19 ? Oliver wasn?t sure if Keyes knew she had it ? and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Previous reporting also noted she was obese and diabetic.
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Her relatives eventually sought a private autopsy. Her daughter, Lisa Jones, told me by email Thursday that their preliminary autopsy results were negative for COVID, but final results won?t be available for a few weeks. She declined a longer interview...
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/he...0210307-nejhppci45g6rongf6fbdrx7te-story.html
Virginia officials won?t say why they didn?t do autopsy of Gloucester woman who died after vaccine
By Elisha Sauers
The Virginian-Pilot |
Mar 07, 2021 at 9:05 AM
...
Keyes died Jan. 30, shortly after getting a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. She waited about 20 minutes after the shot to be observed by health care providers on site, but soon after reaching her car, had difficulty breathing, then vomited, Jones said.
There a medic gave her epinephrine shots in her leg and arm and medicine through an oxygen mask. An ambulance took her to VCU Tappahannock Hospital, where she died. A hospital physician told Jones that her mother suffered from ?flash pulmonary edema,? a condition that caused her lungs to rapidly fill with fluid.
Jones said even before state officials had her mother?s postmortem preliminary test results, the medical examiner?s office told her they would not perform an autopsy.
She had tried to persuade them otherwise ? to consider other tests and look at her heart and tissues ? to gather more information on what happened in the last hours of her life. They told her nothing could be gleaned from an autopsy that would relate the vaccine to her death, she said.
?They said that their primary objective was to determine if she was having an allergy or not,? Jones said.
...
For Jones, the speed of the vaccine rollout and her mother?s death compel her to search for answers. She has wondered whether her mother could have survived if doctors and pathologists understood more about how people?s medical history and conditions play into a severe reaction. She hopes people with underlying health conditions will talk to their doctors before getting the vaccine.
?There?s a lot of things that need to improve,? she said. ?Because of the millions they say are faring well with response to the vaccine, I think they?re just not concerned about a small minority that is being affected in such a rough way.?...
https://www.virginiamercury.com/202...tigation-into-womans-death-after-vaccination/
Officials should have been more forthcoming on investigation into woman?s death after vaccination
By Roger Chesley-
March 12, 2021
...
The state eventually determined Keyes, a minister, died of complications of COVID-19 ? Oliver wasn?t sure if Keyes knew she had it ? and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Previous reporting also noted she was obese and diabetic.
...
Her relatives eventually sought a private autopsy. Her daughter, Lisa Jones, told me by email Thursday that their preliminary autopsy results were negative for COVID, but final results won?t be available for a few weeks. She declined a longer interview...