The parents of a young woman who died after being given an AstraZeneca Covid jab have accused the NHS of failing to pass on known safety warnings about the vaccine.
Marina Waldron, 21, visited hospital with excruciating headaches three times in the week before her fatal collapse from a brain haemorrhage in March 2021.
Max and Liz Waldron said that despite her deteriorating condition, A&E doctors had seemed unaware of the emerging side-effects associated with the jab and warnings that had been issued.
Another family whose son, Oli Akram Hoque, died from the same complications a few days after Marina, are also calling for lessons to be learned.
A Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) spokesperson said: “Throughout the pandemic the health system responded quickly to reports of extremely rare cases of complications following vaccination.”
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was estimated to have saved millions of lives during the pandemic, but as in Marina and Oli’s cases, caused rare – and sometimes fatal – blood clots.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson said the vaccine had been “recognized by governments around the world” as helping bring the pandemic to an end.
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