Deaths post-vaccination now at 11, MOH says unrelated to jab
Juanique Tennant / Our Today
Since beginning its vaccination efforts in March 2021, Director of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Melody Ennis, says the ministry has recorded 249 reports of adverse effects post-COVID-19 vaccination including 11 deaths.
Speaking during Thursday (July 29) evening’s COVID Conversations, Ennis noted that the ministry has established a sub-committee, made up of individuals who look specifically at events that are supposedly attributable to vaccination (ESAVI) including deaths, disability- permanent or temporary, and hospitalization, looking to establish causality.
She stated: “We have to date received 249 ESAVIs that have been reported across the island of our 305, 000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…of the 249 we have classified 46 as serious…and those went through the fulsome evaluation of causality.”
According to Ennis, the ministry has recorded the deaths of 11 persons who died after receiving the vaccine, however, after a fulsome report, nine of the 11 deaths were concluded to be coincidental and not as a result of the vaccine.
On the matter of the remaining two deaths, Ennis stated that they have been ruled as “being indeterminate”. She added that to make this conclusion, a review of the level of evidence on the form that shows whether a vaccine could cause this illness was done and no evidence confirming a link between the vaccine and the illness was found.
As a result, she expressed, “therefore the underlying illnesses that these two persons had possibly could have led to their death and it was indeterminate if the vaccine could have caused it.”
It was not made immediately clear whether autopsies had been done on any of the eleven.
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