1 dead, 1 ill after getting Astrazeneca COVID-19 shot

Two hospital workers in Denmark fell seriously ill after getting the Astrazeneca vaccine, according to local reports. One of them has died.

The patients were admitted to a hospital with blood clots and brain hemorrhage. They began developing symptoms within 14 days of getting vaccinated, the authority that runs public hospitals in Copenhagen said, according to Reuters.

The Danish Medicines Agency said it’s investigating whether their condition was linked to the vaccine.

“The Capital Region of Denmark can confirm that two of our employees have been admitted with symptoms of blood clots in the brain and cerebral hemorrhage,” a spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Ekstra Bladet newspaper. “One has sadly passed away,” the statement added.

Last week, more than a dozen European countries temporarily suspended the use of the vaccine after cases of rare blood clots were reported, leading scientists scrambling to find any relationship between the Astrazeneca shot and the disease.

Danish authorities put a break on the Astrazeneca rollout March 11 after the death of a 60-yearold woman. She had a diagnosis of a “low number of platelets, blood clots in small and large vessels, and bleeding,” according to TV2, a government-owned television station in Denmark.

According to The Associated Press, many countries have since resumed vaccination, after the EU’S drug regulatory agency said that the benefits of the Astrazeneca vaccine outweigh its risks.