Mother died due to rare 'brain bleed' side effect of COVID-19 vaccine, coroner rules

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Mother died due to rare 'brain bleed' side effect of COVID-19 vaccine, coroner rules
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A woman died after a 'catastrophic' bleed on her brain, caused by Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT), an extremely rare side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, an inquest heard.

A woman has died after a bleed on her brain caused by an extremely rare side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine.Severe and fatal side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines are incredibly rare, with just 0.0003% of those having had a dose experiencing fatal effects.

As her condition worsened, she was taken to Rotherham hospital, where she was pronounced dead 17 hours on March 24. Mundy also said that Lockwood's pain "wasn't appropriately managed," and said the concerns of her and her family should have been listened to better.The BBC reported that Lockwood's father, Wayne Merrill, said his daughter's last words to him were that her headache was "actually killing her."

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