ŠÚKL closed two more deaths in connection with vaccination against COVID-19 – TVNOVINY.sk

On Thursday (October 28), the State Institute for Drug Control (ŠÚKL) closed two more deaths in connection with vaccination for disease prevention COVID-19. As the institute stated on its website, the first case was an already publicized case of a man aged 67 years vaccinated with the Comirnaty vaccine from the Pfizer / BioNTech consortium. The second case involved a 68-year-old woman who had been vaccinated with Vaxzevria.

The State Institute stated that in the case of a man who was supposed to be a former deputy Jaroslav Paška, given the time connection with vaccination, it cannot be ruled out that vaccination contributed to the development of complications of the patient’s underlying disease and subsequent death. Therefore, ŠÚKL closed the causal connection as possible.

In the second case of a woman’s death, the cause of death determined by autopsy was related to blood clotting disorders. “Given the conclusions of the pathological-anatomical autopsy and the temporal relationship with vaccination, a causal relationship between vaccination and death was assessed as probable,” he said.

He added that in the event that death occurs in the temporal context after vaccination, the Office for Health Care Supervision (ÚDZS) will order an autopsy, the results of which provide primary evidence of the cause of death. In the case of reported deaths, ŠÚKL closely cooperates with the Section of Forensic Medicine and Pathological Anatomy of the ÚDZS.

As of Thursday (October 28), the institute in Slovakia registered a total of seven deaths in causal connection with vaccination, of which in four cases the connection was determined as possible (after Comirnaty, Spikevax and Vaxzevria vaccines) and in three as probable (after Vaxzevria and Vaxzevria vaccines). Comirnaty). In other closed cases, including some mediated cases, the connection was excluded.