A mother-of-three died from multiple blood clots less than two weeks after having received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, an inquest has found. Tanya Smith, 43, was rushed to hospital after waking with stomach cramps days after her jab.
Tanya Smith (left) suffered severe stomach cramps and was taken to hospital where they discovered she had multiple blood clots
Tanya received her jab on March 21st this year at the Plymouth Argyle vaccination clinic. She was admitted shortly after to Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital where it was found that she had developed multiple blood clots. The mother-of-three suffered a heart attack and then deteriorated before dying in hospital on April 3rd.
Her partner, Kenneth Edwards, said after her death:
“She was just amazing, selfless. She was a childminder, a really good childminder for 19 years. She leaves three children behind, two grown-up children and a 12-year-old little girl with disabilities.
She loved her family, she was really family orientated and she’d go above and beyond.
We’re all pretty lost without her. I’ve never experienced anything like this.”
Tanya Smith pictured with her family,
At Smith’s inquest yesterday, senior coroner Ian Arrow said the blood clots were a “very rare complication” of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Arrow said:
“It appears to me some days after [her vaccination] she then developed a number of thromboses throughout her system. In other words, a number of blood clots.
I’m satisfied those blood clots have led to her death. On the balance of probability, this is a very rare complication of this particular kind of treatment.”
Her husband Kenneth believes she would not have died if she hadn’t had the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Tanya Smith and her partner Kenneth Edwards
“She obviously had a reaction from the jab. She’d never suffered from blood clots. She was healthy before she had that jab.”
Kenneth decided to speak out after he had seen similar reports of people suffering blood clots following the AstraZeneca vaccine, including BBC journalist Lisa Shaw.
“We’re all completely lost without her. I just think her story needs to be told.”
Tanya’s death is being reviewed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), who are investigating instances of blood clots and links to the AstraZeneca vaccine.