SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO – A 16-year-old girl has died 8 days after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Isabelli Borges Valentim got her shot on August 25th. She died of heart-related issues just 8 days later. Her death has caused Brazil’s Ministry of Health to temporarily suspend the immunization against COVID-19 for people aged 12 to 17.

Isabelli had symptoms that included dizziness, shortness of breath and drowsiness a day after her vaccination. Her mother, Cristina, took her to the hospital on Sunday, the 29th after she complained of tingling in her body.

“The attending physician said that these symptoms could be psychological due to the vaccine and that she would be discharged. Before we left the hospital, Isabelli passed out.”

She was then transferred to a hospital in São Paulo where it was found that she had extremely low levels of red blood cells and hemoglobin, and that transfusion of eight bags of blood were needed. She suffered a seizure shortly after and was taken to the intensive care unit where she died on September 2nd.

“She was always very dedicated. It was just the two of us. She was my life, my reason for living.”

Cristina said that her daughter took the vaccine because it was required for travel to Florida, United States to go visit Disneyland, which was her lifelong dream.

An investigation into her sudden death has started: