“Has anyone died from a COVID gunshot?

With some articles on social media claiming that people have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, some wonder if the vaccine directly caused deaths.

WCPO viewer Jim Janszen wrote: “I was wondering if you could ask the doctor if anyone died after receiving the second dose of vaccine – Moderna or Pfizer. I heard that some people died from it… but nothing in the news. “

No deaths from a COVID-19 vaccine have been reported, Hamilton County Medical Director of Public Health Dr Steve Feagins said. Likewise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not identified a single case in which a COVID-19 vaccine caused the death of a person.

Feagins said while nursing home residents died after being injected with COVID-19, the beatings were not the cause of death.

“As we have vaccinated nursing homes en masse, there is a death rate in nursing homes,” Feagins said. “Yes, people have received the vaccine and subsequently died from other causes, so we are monitoring the death rate very closely.”

Do long-term care facilities that receive the vaccine have a higher death rate?

“The answer is no,” he said. “They had a lower death rate because they had less COVID. So even if there have been deaths within seven days of the vaccine, they are examined, they are evaluated. And we have not, to my knowledge yet, found a cause and effect, deaths related to the vaccine itself.

While the second dose of the vaccine may cause robust reaction, Feagins said that most people Side effects vaccine, report low fever, nausea, and pain at the injection site.

This month, WCPO 9 answers your questions about COVID-19 vaccines and puts them to local healthcare experts. Email [email protected] or post @KristynHartmanWCPO on Facebook with your name, neighborhood, and question, and you can see an expert answer it live.