Man Dies After First Shot Of AstraZeneca, His Sister Still Insists People Get Vaccinated

AstraZeneca vaccine risks: Sister wants people to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 although her brother died of a blood clot due to the AstraZeneca vaccine. She insists that her brother was “just extraordinarily unlucky”.

Neil Astles was a 59-year-old man, hailing from a British family of lawyers, who went for the first shot of the vaccine on March 17. Later, he died in the hospital’s ICU unit on April 4, Sunday after suffering crushing headaches and loss of vision, as reported by The Telegraph. The death was out of a blood clot.

Dr Alison Astles, the victim's sister said, "What appears to have happened is the vaccine has caused his immune system to turn against his body."

She added, "His body has reacted by forming a clot which then resulted in a subsequent bleed in his brain."

19 other deaths after being dosed by the vaccine have been reported from the UK, terming the vaccine "controversial". The same has been reported in more than a dozen countries.

The victim's sister termed her brother "extraordinarily unlucky" and said, "Despite what has happened to our family and we strongly believe that everyone should go for their first and second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine."

She added, "If we all have the vaccine, a few of us might have a blood clot but the evidence is that fewer people will die. We have trust in the process and the regulator, and despite what has happened to our family we don’t want people to be scared off."

On April 8, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock commented on the incident and insisted people get vaccinated as the risks were "extremely rare" at about "four in a million. He said, "Covid is a horrible disease and it affects people in their 20s just as much it seems like any other age group." He added that the virus can also have side effects debilitating enough to ruin one's life.