California State Senator slams reports that say Placer County death was related to COVID-19 vaccine This announcement will increase vaccine hesitancy and make it more difficult to achieve vaccination rates necessary to stop the pandemic, Dr. Richard Pan said. Author: Izzy Greenblatt Updated: 11:36 AM PST January 26, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California State Senator and Pediatrician Dr. Richard Pan released a statement condemning reports that the COVID-19 vaccine was related to a Placer County death. Anti-vaccine extremists exaggerate and amplify serious events that occur after vaccination, falsely implicating vaccines when no causal evidence has been found, to increase anxiety about vaccination, Pan said in a statement.
By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media
Jan 26, 2021
The Placer County Sheriff s Office is defending its decision to announce the death of a man who recently received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Social media users are criticizing the sheriff s office for posting the statement, saying it will feed skepticism and misconceptions of the vaccines. The sheriff s office defended the announcement as an effort to maintain transparency. The statement said the person who died tested positive for COVID-19 last month and died several hours after receiving a vaccine dose. California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly shared yesterday they re working closely with the coroner to determine the details around the death.
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The email about a man who drowned while boating on Lake Tahoe arrived in August, when Keith Cormican was in the Canadian Rockies searching for another drowning victim. A young man was missing somewhere in Alberta’s Lake Minnewanka, where the glacial water is so cold that swimmers wear wetsuits even in summer.
By now, Cormican is used to pleading messages from desperate strangers. Over the past seven years, he has become one of the nation’s top specialists in a gruesome yet critical task: locating and retrieving lost bodies in lakes or rivers.
A stout Midwesterner with a round face, gray mustache and glacier blue eyes, Cormican is not part of a government agency no badge, no uniform. The 61-year-old makes a living running a scuba diving shop in Wisconsin. But he has devoted much of the past 25 years to his macabre avocation, towing his custom-outfitted search boat around the country and spending long days motoring across lakes in pursuit of those no
The death of a person last week in Placer County who had recently received a COVID-19 vaccination is under investigation by multiple agencies.
Officials from the Placer County public health department and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the person, who died Thursday, had tested positive for the coronavirus in late December and had been given a vaccine several hours before dying.
Placer County Public Health did not administer the vaccine and did not clarify in the statement whether the person had received the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
“Any reports surrounding the cause of death are premature, pending the outcome of the investigation,” the sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page. “Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased.”