"Mother Who Died After AZ Vaccine... 'Cause Unknown' Unfair" Cheong Petition

Collapsed 14 Days After Vaccination

Vaccination against the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Na Ye-eun] A story has emerged of a mother who received the AstraZeneca (AZ) COVID-19 vaccine and passed away from an 'unknown cause,' but the causality with the vaccine was not recognized, leading to her family's grievance.

On the 18th, a petition titled "Please resolve the grievance of my mother who passed away from an 'unknown cause' after vaccination" was posted on the Blue House National Petition Board. A, a housewife in her 40s living in Incheon raising two daughters, introduced herself and began by saying, "Since losing my mother, I have been enduring each day in pain."

According to the petition, A's mother received the AstraZeneca vaccine on June 11 and collapsed 14 days later. After that, she repeatedly collapsed over the course of a week and eventually could not get up on July 26.

A said she advised her mother to get vaccinated as late as possible, but her mother, who runs a restaurant, received the vaccine according to the government policy that those vaccinated could remove masks or be excluded from gathering limits, based on birth year order.

A said, "When I visited my mother's restaurant on July 23, she was short of breath. She had not experienced such symptoms before, but after vaccination, the shortness of breath began to appear," adding, "Then on the morning of July 26, I received a call from my stepfather. He said she collapsed in the bathroom, and I rushed over but could not see my mother's final moments."

She continued, "(My mother) was declared deceased on arrival at the hospital as a corpse in the ambulance, so the cause of death was registered as 'unknown' with the police."

She said, "The X-ray photos shown by the hospital showed whiteness in the lungs, so a COVID test was conducted, but the result was negative," and added, "An autopsy was performed, and the autopsy report stated, 'Pulmonary thromboembolism, and the possibility of death due to an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine cannot be excluded.'"

Photo by Cheong Wa Dae National Petition Capture

A said, "The National Forensic Service and the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency seem to be handling the case with the mindset of excluding the possibility of the vaccine rather than considering the victim's position," and raised her voice, "There has been no news of the Disease Control Agency's review results even after three months."

She continued, "The country recommended vaccination, so I trusted the country and got vaccinated. I have many things I still wanted to do with my mother, and if she had not been vaccinated, she would still be by my side. Thinking about that makes me so angry that I want to break the finger that made the vaccination appointment for her," she pleaded.

Finally, she added, "Victims from vaccine side effects continue to increase. How long will we remain silent, and how long will vaccinations continue? The country should now apologize to the families who have been sacrificed due to vaccine side effects."

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