Posted: Dec 30, 2020 11:56 AM ET | Last Updated: December 30, 2020
Deborah Tilli, 27, says she accepted the possibility of death while suffering a severe allergic reaction after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. She says she feared her two daughters, ages seven and four, would be left without a mother.(Submitted by Deborah Tilli)
A personal support worker feels the health-care system failed her after someone overlooked her allergies, she says, and let her get a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine triggered a severe reaction which she says caused her to faint, suffer multiple seizures, require CPR and still feel the effects almost a week later.
Deborah Tilli, 27, is one of the few people to have had a severe reaction to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. And while she doesn t want people to avoid the vaccine, Tilli says her case is a cautionary tale for those with allergies.