The 24-year-old make-up artist took the Pfizer vaccine nearly two weeks before her death—but the coroner found no evidence it was linked to her death.
A New Zealand coroner has issued a warning about the risks of oral contraceptives after two women died from blood clots in the same circumstances in the same month.
A 24-year-old Auckland-based make-up artist, Georgia O’Neill, was found “unresponsive” in her bedroom on the afternoon of Sept. 20, 2021, after complaining that she was “not feeling well” and “had a lot of pain in her lower back” earlier in the day. Ms. O’Neill had sent a text message to her father and flatmate.
Upon receiving the text message, Ms. O’Neill’s flatmate replied three times but did not receive a response.
The flatmate then went back to their home to find Ms. O’Neill unresponsive, where she was later pronounced dead by attending paramedics.
A post-mortem examination found Ms. O’Neill had thrombosis in the right pulmonary artery, as well as a heterozygous Factor V Leiden mutation.
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