MONTREAL A 54-year-old woman has died in the province after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Quebec s public health director Horacio Arruda confirmed Tuesday. “We just had our first patient who has died of a thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis, following vaccination from AstraZeneca, said Arruda in a news conference. This is an event that is rare. We knew that it might happen. We have a risk of default one in every 100,000 doses today. Arruda said it was a risk the province knew it was taking, and that the benefits outweigh the risks. It puts a face on a statistic and for us, statistics are always people, and there s no way of knowing who the person is who is going to react that way, he added. People don t get vaccinated to die. It s rare, and we can t predict it. But for the population at large, vaccination remains beneficial.
MONTREAL The risk of developing serious blood clots from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is similar to the chances of being struck by lightning, the chief physician at the McGill University Health Centre said Wednesday.
Dr. Marc Rodger offered the comparison following Tuesday s news that a 54-year-old Quebec woman died April 23 from a blood clot that developed after she got the vaccine.
Rodger said the death of Francine Boyer is absolutely tragic, but the risk of COVID-19 for people who aren t vaccinated is exponentially higher than for those who are. The risk seems to be in the one-in-100,000 range, he said in an interview, about blood clots. To put that in context, that s similar risk to being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
Despite the rain, people in Espanola lined up yesterday for their vaccine. Many told this Moose reporter they just want to get the vaccine to feel they are safe and to have life return back to normal, sooner rather than later. Photo by Rosalind Russell - myespanolanow.com staffer
Public Health Sudbury & Districts reports second death in as many days
Public Health Sudbury & Districts say a second person has died of COVID-19 in as many days.
Out of respect for the family, no other details are being released.
This brings the number of people who have died from the virus in the health unit’s jurisdiction to 27 since the pandemic started.