"Utah woman, 39, dies 4 days after 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine; autopsy ordered"

"During a KUTV investigation into COVID-19 vaccine side effects and where to report them, we found four reported deaths, filed by Utah families and their caregivers to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System.

One case stood out, a 39-year-old single mom from Ogden who died four days after her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine…

Kassidi Kurill, by all accounts, was healthy, happy and ‘had more energy' than just about anyone else around her. Her family told 2News she had no known health problems or pre-existing conditions.

Alfred Hawley, a retired Hill Air Force Base fighter pilot, is a military man who has known risk and loss his entire life. He’s taken it all in stride — until now…

Four days after Kurill's second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, she was gone — dead before most of her family could say their goodbyes.

Hawley woke up that Thursday morning to his daughter asking for help.
'She came in early and said her heart was racing and she felt like she need to get to the emergency room,' Hawley said…

Kurill and her 9-year-old daughter, Emilia, lived with her parents…

Kurill, he said, 'got sick right away, soreness at the shot location, then started getting sick then, started complaining that she was drinking lots of fluids but couldn't pee, and then felt a little better the next day.'

It was her second shot; the first came with a sore arm but no real side effects or issues. Kurill was the first in the family to get the vaccine. She was a surgical tech for several local plastic surgeons, and the vaccine was part of the job. She stepped up to get the shot without hesitation, her family said.

'She was absolutely fine with getting it. In fact, she told all of us, 'it's fine, you guys should all get it.'…

Kurill got the second shot on Feb. 1. While she was in bed all day Tuesday and Wednesday, it wasn’t until Thursday morning she knew something was wrong. She woke up early, got ready, and asked her dad to driver her to the local emergency room, where they arrived by 7 a.m.

As soon as they walked in the door, Kurill was throwing up. Minutes later, questions were raised about what was making her so sick…

Her dad recalls doctors asking question after question, 'Is there any explanation?'

Hawley said he told them Kurill had just had her second shot.

'They did a blood test and immediately came back and said she was very, very sick, and her liver was not functioning,' Hawley said…

Kurill was flown to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, a trauma center where they had the ability to do transplants if needed.

Her liver was failing and a transplant, doctors believed, was her best option at survival.

That’s when Kristin got the call her sister was being transferred.

She jumped on the first flight to Utah, but when she landed, she was not allowed in the hospital because of COVID-19 protocols…

Doctors were doing everything they could to get Kurill stable, but nothing seemed to work. Hawley said his daughter’s liver, kidney and heart shut down.

Hawley, who was with his daughter when she died, said it didn’t make any sense.

She was healthy, happy and active, the greatest mom you ever saw in your life, and then she was so sick that, in less than 12 hours, intubated and on life support…

She died, he said, 30 hours after they arrived in the emergency room…

Dr. Erik Christensen, Utah's chief Medical Examiner, said proving vaccine injury as a cause of death almost never happens.

'Did the vaccine cause this? I think that would be very hard to demonstrate in autopsy,' he said.

Christensen can think of only one instance where you would see a vaccine as the cause of death on an official autopsy report, and that would be in an immediate case of anaphylaxis — one where a person received the vaccine and died almost instantaneously, he said.

'Short of that, it would be difficult for us to definitively say this is the vaccine.'…

Kurill, according to her family, had no known medical conditions...
Kristin said when she looks back, her sister 'was fine the day she got the shot and then everything changed.'

Her father agreed. He said Kurill was 'healthy and good — then she took the shot.' He points to 'Occam’s Razor, where the simplest answer is mostly likely correct.'

Until he gets other data, Hawley said he 'must believe there was something with the shot.'

Kurill'’s death will leave a major void. Her 9-year-old daughter will continue living with her grandparents…"