New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said the 70-year-old man collapsed after being vaccinated with Covid-19 for about 25 minutes on February 8. Security and medical staff were immediately present to assist, but the old man later died at a local hospital.
According to the Daily Mail, it is still unclear whether his death was related to a vaccine. An investigation related to the incident is underway.
Mr. Zucker said at first signs that the man did not have any allergic reaction to the vaccine during follow-up 15 minutes after the injection.
What vaccines the man mentioned above is currently unknown.
Mr. Zucker said that he and other health experts agreed that Covid-19 vaccine is safe and urges all eligible New Yorkers to be vaccinated.
To date, nearly one million people in New York have been vaccinated.
Across the United States, the number of people vaccinated each day now surpasses the number of people infected, with an average of 1.3 million injections per day nationwide. A total of nearly 42 million doses of the vaccine have been injected to date.
About 31,579,100 people, equivalent to 9.6% of the US population, received 1 dose of vaccine and about 9,147,000 Americans, accounting for 2.78% of the population, received 2 doses.
Adverse reactions caused by vaccines are considered extremely rare, with a few often associated with an allergic reaction. Since the vaccination program began in December last year, there have been a number of unexplained deaths involving vaccinated people.