Health authorities believe the death of a woman just hours after she received a Covid -19 vaccination was unrelated to the injection.
The 82-year-old died at the Blue Care Yurana Aged Care Facility in the southern Brisbane suburb of Springwood on Wednesday, reportedly three hours after being given the Pfizer vaccine.
As of Wednesday evening there were no signs of any link between the woman’s death and the vaccination, according to Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly.
The Blue Care Springwood Yurana Aged Care Facility where an 82-year-old woman died the same day she received a Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
She was reportedly given the Pfizer vaccine at 10am and police were called to the residence at 1.30pm
The woman is understood to have been suffering from a lung disease.
‘Sadly more than 1000 people pass in aged care every week. It is inevitable that this will include people who have been recently vaccinated,’ Professor Kelly said.
‘It can be expected that older and more frail people in an aged care setting may pass away due to progression of underlying disease or natural causes, this does not mean the vaccine has contributed to this.’
He added that ‘any event’ occurring after a vaccination will be ‘fully investigated’ by medical experts and the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
A report is also being prepared for the coroner.
Police were called to the residence at 1.30pm and confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that the woman’s death ‘is not being treated as suspicious’.
Queensland Police were unable to comment further.
Daily Mail Australia also contacted the Blue Care Springwood Yurana Aged Care Facility for comment.
The elderly woman’s death comes two days after a former governor from Papua New Guinea, Mal Kela Smith, died from Covid in a Queensland hospital.
The dual Papuan-British national was evacuated to Queensland on an emergency flight on March 28.
Mr Smith was first diagnosed in Papua New Guinea and was in intensive care in Redcliffe Hospital until he died ‘from complications due to Covid-19’ on Monday, Queensland Health said.
As Mr Smith was not diagnosed in Australia, he will not be counted in Queensland’s official death toll, which stands at 6.
Australia’s Chief Medical officer said all ‘events’ that occur after a vaccination will be thoroughly investigation
The man who died in a Queensland hospital from Covid-19 was former governor and business man from Papua New Guinea, Mal Kela Smith (pictured)
There have been no deaths from locally-acquired cases or travellers with Covid-19 in Queensland since April 18 last year.
Three people, including a returned overseas traveller in his 40s, are currently in intensive care with the virus in Australia.
Australia’s vaccine rollout plan is based on two vaccines: an imported one made by Pfizer and BioNTech, and the other by AstraZeneca and University of Oxford.
The majority of Australians will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, as it is being locally manufactured by CSL.
Fatigue, headaches and body aches are understood to be the most common side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Dr David Caldicott (pictured) detailed his adverse reaction to Pfizer Covid vaccine
Overseas there have been reports of deaths in Norway and Israel after Pfizer vaccinations, but authorities have reassured the public the claims are overstated and coincidental.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison received the Pfizer vaccine, which was mainly being used in the early stages of Australia’s vaccine rollout, before local production of the AstraZeneca jab began.
According to clinical trials the Pfizer vaccine prevents Covid-19 in 95 per cent of recipients.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration was adamant ‘there is no specific risk of vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in elderly patients’.
But the TGA did identify side effects.
More than 60 per cent of people will experience fatigue from a Pfizer dose and over 50 per cent will get a headache.
Over 30 per cent will suffer muscle pain or chills from the Pfizer vaccine and more than 20 per cent will experience joint pain.
Last week an experienced emergency room doctor claims he was floored for days by side effects from his second jab of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine that ‘shocked’ him.
David Caldicott, who works at Canberra’s Calvary Hospital, was among the first people in the country to get the vaccine under the government’s phase 1a rollout.
Dr Caldicott had his first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine in February, which he described as fairly normal with no adverse effects.
But three weeks later he received his second Pfizer dose and was so exhausted he cancelled his weekend plans and decided to stay home.
