Husband: She said ‘her head felt like it was going to explode’
A coroner in England has concluded that a 34-year-old mother died from a “catastrophic” bleed on the brain caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.
Eight days after receiving an AstraZeneca shot, Kim Lockwood complained of an excruciating headache. About 17 hours after arriving at Rotherham Hospital in South Yorkshire, she was pronounced dead, BBC News reported.
She died one year ago, in March 2021, but the coroner said little was known at the time of her death about the link between the COVID-19 vaccine and the condition Lockwood suffered, Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia, or VITT.
The coroner, Nicola Mundy, said that because of “medical advances,” the condition is better-recognized since the initial vaccine rollout.
Lockwood’s husband, Damian, said she had complained of being in so much pain “her head felt like it was going to explode.” Her father, Wayne Merrill, said his daughters last words to him were that her headache was “actually killing her.”
Government figures, the BBC said, show there have been 438 reported cases of VITT and 78 related deaths after an estimated 24.9 million first doses and 24.2 million second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.