A single mom who appeared to be healthy has passed away just days after receiving her second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The 39-year-old woman from Utah died four days after receiving her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to local media reports.
Kassidi Kurill, a mother of one from Ogden, received the vaccine due to her work as a surgical tech for several plastic surgeons, KUTV reported.
“She was absolutely fine with getting it. In fact, she told all of us, ‘It’s fine, you guys should all get it,’” her father, Alfred Hawley, told the outlet.
Kurill experienced a sore arm after the first jab of Moderna, but had no other side effects.
However, her condition tragically deteriorated after she got the second shot on Feb. 1.
“She came in early and said her heart was racing and she felt like she need to get to the emergency room,” Hawley said.
By the time she got to the emergency room, Kurill was nauseous and vomiting, her father said.
“They did a blood test and immediately came back and said she was very, very sick, and her liver was not functioning,” the heartbroken dad told KUTV.
Kurill’s older sister Kristin, who lives in Arizona, said she knew her sister had gone to the hospital, but the speed at which she deteriorated was “so unexpected.”
She thought her sister would get an IV and be back home in an hour, but Hawley knew they were not going home anytime soon.
“It was a total shock, and I was even afraid to tell my wife,” he SAID.
Kurill was soon flown to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, a trauma center, as her liver was failing and a transplant was believed to be her best chance at survival.
Her sister said that she caught the first flight she could to Utah but was not allowed into the hospital because of coronavirus protocols, so she waited with her sister’s daughter Emilia, 9, as the family hoped for a miracle.
Kurill’s parents volunteered to donate a portion of their livers but never got the chance to offer the lifesaving gift when their daughter’s liver, kidneys and heart shut down.
She died 30 hours after arriving at the hospital.
An autopsy was performed on Kurill’s body but the state Medical Examiner’s Office could not comment on the case due to privacy laws, KUTV said.
According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, about 92 million COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in the US between Dec. 14 and March 8.
Of those 92 million, VAERS received 1,637 reports of death (0.0018%) among people who received a jab.