Marina Artusa
03/17/2021 4:16 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 03/17/2021 4:16 PM
Pilar González Bres
was 43 years old, had two daughters, a passion for mathematics and all the enthusiasm for the dose of AstraZeneca that was applied to her on March 3, two weeks before the
stroke
that caused her death on Tuesday and which will be investigated. for
alleged link
to the Covid vaccine he received.
His death occurred just 24 hours after Spain suspended, for at least 15 days, vaccination against the coronavirus with AstraZeneca.
But while the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to affirm that "there is no reason not to use this vaccine", Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Holland and Bulgaria have already paralyzed their vaccination campaigns with that Oxford serum.
The Spanish Ministry of Health will study Pilar's death to see whether or not there is a link with the vaccine.
The AstraZeneca drug, in the eye of the storm.
Photo: AP
Two more cases
His case is added to
two
other
severe adverse reactions
in those who received the same vaccine and which were registered by the Spanish Pharmacovigilance System coordinated by the Medicines Agency: a person who after the puncture had
an
abdominal
venous thrombosis
and another who developed a thrombosis in the venous sinuses of the brain.
"The three cases have the particularity that thrombotic events have been associated with
a decrease in
the number of
platelets in the blood,
" they say from the Ministry of Health.
And they add: "This fact may suggest an abnormal activation of the coagulation system that would be associated with this formation of clots in locations that
are not the most common
."
Spain has vaccinated almost
a million people
with AstraZeneca so far.
"We will miss her"
Pilar was a teacher at the Guadalpín Institute of Secondary Education (IES) in Marbella, in Andalusia, and she was vaccinated, together with her teaching colleagues, with the serenity of someone who
does not suffer from any disease
or previous health disorder.
However, within hours of being vaccinated, he went to the emergency department of a private center because of
the severe headaches
that he began to feel, a symptom that the doctors attributed to a minor side effect of the vaccination.
Pilar continued teaching even though she felt badly.
Ten days later, he returned to the hospital and they even did
a computed tomography
that, apparently, did not detect any abnormality.
On March 13, she returned to the Guard and only then was the
massive hemorrhage
discovered,
from which she was operated urgently and from which she could not recover.
Pilar died Tuesday afternoon.
This Wednesday an autopsy will be carried out on his body.
According to the Spanish press, a fellow teacher of Pilar pointed out in a school group chat: “I don't intend to alarm, but I want it to be known.
I do not want the news to be an isolated case of no importance. "
“It's bleak and, after that, worrying.
Practically all the teachers in the town and the state security forces have been vaccinated with doses from the same batch, ”said the school principal, Fernando Vázquez.
This Wednesday, at ten o'clock in the morning, students and teachers did a minute of silence to remember Pilar.
"We will miss both his affectionate treatment and his personal and professional worth", was the message of the Guadalpín Institute on its social networks.
At the entrance of the school, an improvised altar with an easel covered by a black cloth and a small sign with Pilar's name promised her that she would rest in peace.
At the foot of the easel, his students left a vase with tulips and evergreens.
Madrid. Correspondent
ap