3 Apr 2024

Impossible to tell if death was from Covid vaccine or virus says coroner

From Morning Report, 7:14 am on 3 April 2024

A coroner has ruled it's impossible to tell if a 13-year-old boy died from his covid vaccine or a virus.

Coroner Robin Kay has released findings into this death on Wednesday, one of four in New Zealand which has been linked to the vaccine.

He found the boy died of myocarditis 10 days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, but the cause of the myocarditis could have been due to viruses found in his heart, rather than the vaccine.

Morning Report reporter/producer Ellen O'Dwyer spoke to Corin Dann.