Man regrets telling his mum to get vaccine
Aussie newscorp website news.com.au has a story about a mum dying from the vaccine on the front page right now.
"Son ‘dearly regrets’ telling his mum to get the AstraZeneca vaccine but experts warn of risks of not getting vaccinated"
Prasad used to speak to his mum every day but all that changed “in a split second” last month.
Three days after the Canberra man’s 79-year-old mother Ratna received her second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in India, he called her about 4pm (AEST time) to ask how she was feeling and she said she was fine.
When he called again, just two and a half hours later, she was already in a coma.
From what he can gather from relatives in India, his mum went into the backyard to put some garbage out for collection and went back into the kitchen.
“She was holding on to the bench, she called out to my niece twice and by the time my niece got there she was already closing her eyes and went into a deep coma,” he said.
She never regained consciousness, although she survived for roughly five days before dying on May 6.
Prasad’s mother, who is an Australian citizen, is one of the many people around the world who are suspected of dying from an extremely rare blood clotting condition known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
She was living in India at the time of her death and Prasad won’t ever know if the vaccine was responsible for her death as the COVID-19 crisis engulfing the country makes it unlikely her death will be properly investigated.
Prasad believes the vaccine did play a part as his mother was the youngest of six siblings who are all still alive. A MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) report also showed Ratna had a massive haemorrhage in the left frontal lobe of her brain.
Prasad, who along with another sibling recommended to his mother that she get the AstraZeneca vaccine, now feels responsible for her death even though he researched safety information from authorities including Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration and America’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I should have been a bit more diligent to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine and I regret it dearly now,” he told news.com.au.