IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) A health care worker has died at UC Irvine Medical Center after receiving his second dose of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, the Orange County Register reported Tuesday.
Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, started having breathing problems and an upset stomach within hours after the second shot was administered, according to the newspaper.
He died days later, on Saturday.
Zook s family said he had high blood pressure and was slightly overweight, but he was a proponent of the vaccine.
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IRVINE, Calif. A health care worker has died at UC Irvine Medical Center after receiving his second dose of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, the Orange County Register reported Tuesday.
Tim Zook, a 60-year-old X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, suffered an adverse reaction within hours after the second shot was administered, according to the newspaper.
He died days later, on Saturday.
Zook s family said he had high blood pressure and was slightly overweight, but he was a proponent of the vaccine.
The Orange County coroner s office said it was investigating the man s death, adding that if there is a correlation to the vaccine it will notify the OC Heath Care Agency.
Nurses Protest Working Conditions at Orange County Hospitals Amid Pandemic
Registered nurses from four different Orange County, California, hospitals protested Dec. 23 against declining hospital safety conditions resulting from an increase of COVID-19-infected patients.
Dozens of nurses attended the scheduled protests, which started at 6 a.m. and lasted approximately two and a half hours. They were held simultaneously in front of the Chapman Global Medical Center in the City of Orange, the South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, and the Anaheim Global and West Anaheim medical centers in Anaheim.
Nurses say they have been working double shifts with few breaks, are under-equipped with personal protective equipment (PPE), and are enduring extremely high patient-to-nurse ratios because staffing waivers have been granted to acute care hospitals.
Nurses in Orange County protest staffing conditions at local hospitals
Orange County nurses are protesting against hospitals, saying staffing ratios are dangerously low and unsafe for patients.
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ORANGE COUNTY (KABC) The support for nurses demonstrating outside South Coast Global Medical Center is clear. It was one of four protests at Orange County hospitals.
Nurses say that their safety and patient lives are at risk after the state allowed their hospital, part of KPC Health, to increase the patient to nurse ratio in the middle of a pandemic. So instead of giving us more nurses we got more work. Patients are going to die, nurses are gonna break, nurses are exhausted, says Karen Rodriguez, a registered nurse.