Kassidi Kurill and her 9-year-old daughter Emilia. (GoFundMe)
A 39-year-old Utah mom died just four days after receiving her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a Wednesday report that investigated vaccine side effects.
Kassidi Kurill took the second dose of the vaccine on Monday, February 1. And by Friday evening that week, she was dead, according to 2News, which was the first to report on Kurill’s case.
Kurill’s father, Alfred Hawley has made statements stating that his daughter was healthy as a horse and had no underlying conditions.
On Tuesday, Kurill’s condition worsened. Her father said she complained that she was drinking fluids by not urinating and had a headache and nausea. By Wednesday, she felt a little better. But on Thursday, her heart began racing and Hawley took her to the hospital.
“When I took her to the emergency room, she had her makeup on and false eyelashes on. I mean she wasn’t going to go not put together,” Hawley said.
Kurill began throwing up. The doctors took blood tests, and she became less coherent, Hawley said. Thursday evening, she was transported to Trauma Center in Murray for a liver transplant.
Doctors tried repeatedly to stabilize her for a liver transplant but her condition deteriorated, and by Friday morning, she couldn’t talk.
“They were trying to get her to a point where she was stable enough for a liver transplant. And they just could not get her stable,” Hawley said. “She got worse and worse throughout the day. And at nine o’clock, she passed.”
An autopsy report is pending. The family, meanwhile, has set up a GoFundMe page for a “Kassidi Kurill and Emilia Memorial Fund,” in honor of Kurill and her nine-year-old daughter.