The reporter died of a side effect of the coronavirus vaccine, and now the manufacturer is being sued

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Lisa Shaw, 44, a BBC Radio Newcastle contributor, died in May 2021, a week after her first vaccination. In August 2021, the coroner said Shaw died of a very rare form of “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia,” a condition that causes the brain to swell and bleed.

The deceased’s husband, Gareth Eve, said that despite trying to “contact the government, MPs and three prime ministers”, no one had responded. Father-of-one Eve is among the families who have lost loved ones to alleged side effects from the vaccine and who are suing the makers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

He said he just wanted “some kind of acknowledgment that these deaths happened. We’re not crazy people or conspiracy theorists, we’re husbands, wives and family members who have lost someone – that’s all.” He added:

No matter how much money I get, it won’t bring my son’s mother back.

Lawyers for the group sent the company a statement of claim in November, the first step in a lawsuit filed on behalf of about 75 plaintiffs, some of whom lost loved ones and some who survived with permanent damage.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca-developed vaccine was first licensed in the UK in December 2020, with the government ordering 100 million doses for its vaccination programme. A Department of Health spokesperson told the paper: “More than 144 million Covid vaccines have been administered in England, helping the country cope with Covid and saving thousands of lives. All vaccines used in the UK have undergone rigorous clinical trials and meet the Medicines and the strict safety, efficacy and quality requirements of the Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)”.

He added that vaccines are the “best way” to protect against diseases caused by Covid and that the UK’s vaccine compensation scheme is “available to people who, in extremely rare circumstances, have been seriously disabled or died because of a government-recommended listed disease received an administered vaccine”.

In a statement, AstraZeneca said evidence from clinical trials and data showed the Covid vaccine had an “acceptable safety profile” and that the benefits “weighed the risk of extremely rare potential side effects”.

Peter Todd, a lawyer for Scott-Moncrieff and Associates, representing the plaintiffs, said the claim is based on the vaccine being “a defective product because it was not as safe as consumers could reasonably expect.”

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