PAPHOS, CYPRUS – Stephanie Dubois, a British fashion model based in Cyprus, has died 16 days after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Dubois got her shot on May 6th and was hospitalized with breathing difficulties 8 days later. Her health quickly deteriorated and she slipped into a coma before passing away on Saturday, May 22nd.
Stephanie had no underlying health conditions according to health officials at the hospital in Nicosia where she was until her death.
Dubois made a post on Facebook announcing that she was going to receive her first COVID-19 shot on Thursday, May 6th:
She felt “horrendous” hours after the shot:
Her final was post on May 18th where she wrote that she had to undergo a “couple more tests”:
A health service spokesperson for the Cypriot government said that an investigation into her death was launched by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).