‘Our Daughter Should Not Have Died From The Covid Jab’
The parents of a young woman who died after receiving an AstraZeneca COVID injection have accused the NHS of failing to communicate known safety concerns about the vaccination.
Marina Waldron, 21, went to the hospital three times in a week before dying of a brain hemorrhage in March 2021.
Max and Liz Waldron:
Claimed that, despite her deteriorating condition, A&E clinicians appeared uninformed of the emerging side effects related to the jab and the cautions that had been issued.
Another family, whose son, Oli Akram Hoque, died of the same issues a few days after Marina, is also urging lessons to be learned.
A representative for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) stated: “Throughout the pandemic, the health system responded quickly to reports of extremely rare cases of complications following vaccination.”
The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccination was expected to have saved millions of lives during the epidemic, but it also produced rare—and possibly fatal—blood clots, as Marina and Oli experienced.
According to an AstraZeneca spokesman, the vaccine has been “recognized by governments around the world” for its contribution to the end of the pandemic.
Marina, from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, was just starting out in cinema when she received her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 11, 2021.
By March22, she had a headache and sickness and went to a London hospital, only to be sent home with migraine tablets, despite the fact that she had recently received the jab.
Mrs. Waldron, 64, stated that Marina deteriorated the next day and was discharged by an A&E department, this time with a migraine diagnosis but no brain scan.
On March 27, her parents were so concerned that they took her to A&E in Gloucester. She died on March 31 at Southmead Hospital in Bristol from a heart attack and a brain haemorrhage.
“We were not able to enter. We couldn’t respond, ‘Don’t you understand she hasn’t drunk or eaten’. “They [the hospital] just sent her back,” explained Mrs Waldron.
“But the next day it was worse, and she started having issues with her arm; she was lifting up her arm and holding it, and that’s when it all went mad.”
Marina’s death was ruled by a coroner in December 2023 to be caused by a mixture of factors: intracerebral hemorrhage, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, and vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine.
While the coroner said Marina died as a result of a recognised but extremely unusual consequence of the AstraZeneca vaccination, he did not blame the NHS for failing to diagnose it in a timely manner.
The Waldrons want to know why medical personnel were not notified about the vaccine’s risks sooner, when other nations were halting its use, and why adequate diagnostic steps were not taken immediately.
They believe that earlier awareness would have made a huge difference in Marina’s case.
Mrs. Waldron:
went on: “It was only after a couple of days in the hospital that they took us to one side and said, ‘we think it’s the vaccine’, and we said, ‘we’ve been banging on about this vaccine right from the beginning, and every single person said it wasn’t anything to do with that’.”They didn’t bother scanning her.
“There was a possibility—a chance she could have been saved.”
Their attorney, Lynda Reynolds of the Hugh James firm, said there appeared to be a lag between guidance released on the government’s public website on March 18 to encourage anyone with concerns to visit A&E and medics being instructed on April 7 to explore any potential symptoms.
She explained, “Unfortunately for Marina, she fell into that breach. “She is not the only one.”
Could doctors have been warned sooner?
15 March: Germany, France, and Italy cease Astra Zeneca rollouts.
A week before Marina became ill, Germany, France, and Italy paused AstraZeneca jab rollouts following a string of blood clot events in Europe, despite the World Health Organization’s belief that there was insufficient evidence to establish a relationship.
On March 18, five cases of blood clots in the brain were detected (ages 18–59), including one death.
A few days later, the UK reported five occurrences of blood clots in the brain, one of which was deadly. The NHS continued to administer the vaccine to young people, but warned anyone who experienced a headache lasting more than four days following inoculation to seek medical attention as a precaution.
25 March: NHS Blood and Transplant issues an alert to specialized workers.
The alarm was issued after an increase in the number of organ donors dying from blood clots was observed. It said as follows: “I would ask you to be alert to the possibility of this syndrome in any patient within 28 days of receiving the COVID vaccination with thrombosis or unexplained thrombocytopenia.”
5 April: Oli Akram Hoque returns to the hospital.
Oli had been suffering from increasingly severe headaches before being turned away by a GP. He died ten days later from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.
The alarm was issued after an increase in the number of organ donors dying from blood clots was observed. It said as follows: “I would ask you to be alert to the possibility of this syndrome in any patient within 28 days of receiving the COVID vaccination with thrombosis or unexplained thrombocytopenia.”
5 April: Oli Akram Hoque returns to the hospital.
Oli had been suffering from increasingly severe headaches before being turned away by a GP. He died ten days later from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.
7 April: New recommendations for healthcare practitioners.
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MRHA) reported a probable relationship between the AstraZeneca COVID vaccination and some forms of blood clots. Both families believe this should have been released sooner.
‘An amazing girl’
During the inquest, expert testimony suggested that had Marina’s brain scans been performed earlier, it would not have made a difference.
Ms Reynolds stated that the vaccine can cause blood platelets to clump together and that the scan may not have accurately revealed the underlying issue.Marina’s platelets were clearly deteriorating, and if she had been properly checked and reviewed, this would have been discovered because it was in her prior blood test.”
Mrs Waldron is determined that people should not forget her daughter, whose organs were given following her death.
“We don’t want the number of people who have died to be swept under the carpet because it’s taken over three years to get to the coroner’s court,” she told me.
“Her death had not been registered [until then] as a vaccine death.”She was a beautiful girl. “She was not afraid of anything.”
Mr. Waldron continued: “We don’t know how many other people went through the same thing and died from the same thing as Marina.”
Oli Akram Hoque, 26, of London, died from a blood clot on the brain on April 15th, a rare and lethal consequence of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
He had his jab on March 19, 2021, and began experiencing headaches on April 1.
His symptoms worsened, prompting him to visit an A&E department at a London hospital on April 4.
The coroner concluded at Oli’s inquest that he had not appeared with any symptoms that would have necessitated an emergency department assessment during his first hospital visit.
The same evening, he was transferred to the same London hospital where Marina had received treatment for a terrible headache the previous month.
He saw a GP there who did not believe he required an assessment, but the next day he was brought back to the hospital after experiencing convulsions.
His sister, Anika Hoque, explained: “He was saying, ‘Why do I feel like this?’ and he was pressing his hands. The doctor didn’t think that it was anything to be concerned about.”
The MHRA informed Oli’s inquest that, beginning on February 25, 2021, it had detected three incidences of blood clots in the brain related to the AstraZeneca jab.
However, the MHRA was unable to properly assess these cases because hospitals could not provide all of the essential clinical information.
The coroner expressed concerns with the DHSC, stating that the MHRA should be able to require hospitals to provide such information as quickly as feasible.
The MHRA issued the following statement: “Regarding the scope of the MHRA’s powers to compel information to be provided by hospitals to patients, the Agency does not have legal powers to compel healthcare professionals to provide additional information.”
Miss Hoque stated that the AstraZeneca vaccine had already been banned in various parts of Europe at the time of her brother’s passing.
“This is information that I had to find through the internet,” she told me.
“My GP said the exact same thing, so it was clear that information was available at the time, but the doctors in A&E said they were not aware, which was surprising, so obviously it cost lives.”
The DHSC stated, “Our thoughts are with the families of Marina Waldron and Oli Hoque.
“This government is committed to learning lessons through the COVID-19 inquiry.”
It stated that vaccines would be considered in Module 4 of the COVID-19 Inquiry, with hearings scheduled to begin on January 14 and continue until January 30.
In addition, the “health system quickly responded to reports from the MHRA of extremely rare cases of concurrent thrombosis and thrombocytopenia following vaccination with the first dose of AstraZeneca.”
In April 2021, the Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunization recommended that adults under the age of 30 with no underlying health concerns be offered an alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca if one was available.
This was then extended in May 2021 to adults under the age of 40 who did not have any underlying health conditions.
‘6 million lives saved.’
AstraZeneca’s representative told the BBC, “Our sympathies go out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.” Patient safety is our first priority.Based on the body of evidence in clinical trials and real-world data, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has consistently been shown to have an acceptable safety profile, and regulators all over the world have stated that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare potential side effects.
“We are extremely proud of the role Oxford-AstraZeneca played in bringing an end to the global pandemic.
“According to independent estimates, over six million lives were saved in the first year of use alone and over three billion doses were supplied globally.”Our efforts have been recognized by governments all around the world, and they are largely viewed as vital to the end of the global pandemic.”
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