Doctors treating an elderly Longford woman who died after an unexplained series of seizures last year told an inquest that her death was possibly linked to an adverse reaction to a Covid-19 vaccine.
However, even two hospital consultants who treated the patient, Bridget Kerr (86), stressed that it was not within their area of expertise to say definitively that a reaction to the Pfizer vaccine was the explanation for the death of her
An inquest at the Dublin District Coroner’s Court hearing the post mortem examination of the body of Mrs Kerry, a mother of seven from Cooleeney, Dublin Road, Longford, was inconclusive in establishing her cause of death.
Evidence was heard that several other possible explanations had been ruled out, including stroke, brain tumor, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Ms Kerr died at Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital on 27 April 2021, having been transferred there from the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar after suffering a series of seizures.
Her family says her mother only got sick after receiving the Covid vaccine from her GP two months earlier.
Dr McGarry, former president of the Irish Medical Organization, said he explained to the patient what the vaccine entailed and gave her verbal consent, despite reservations from some of her relatives that he acknowledged that they were “totally legitimate.”
He accepted that the headache and chills Ms. Kerr experienced after receiving the vaccine on February 26, 2021 were known side effects.
The inquest heard that Ms Kerr, who had previously been doing well despite being stopped from medication, was unable to walk and had to use a wheelchair within weeks of receiving the vaccine.
Ms. Kerr’s daughter, Deirdre Greene, said her mother was doing well after recovering from her illness the previous year to the point of receiving the vaccine.
Another daughter, Breege Brady, said her mother suffered “rapid deterioration” coinciding with the administration of the Pfizer vaccine and she was unable to recognize her on March 14, 2021.
A consultant geriatrician at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar, Clare Fallon, admitted that it was possible that an adverse reaction to the vaccine had caused the patient to suffer from delirium.
Ms. Kerr’s family also expressed concern that a limited autopsy had been performed on her body due to the possibility that she may have suffered from CJD, a fatal communicable disease, but this was later ruled out.
Ms Brady said it was unacceptable that they would have found such information from a funeral director. She also expressed her concern that the pathologist who performed the autopsy, Alan Beausang, had not been informed of her family’s concern about the Pfizer vaccine and its possible role in her mother’s death.
Ms Greene also questioned what the Health Care Products Regulatory Authority had done with the adverse reaction reports sent to it on her mother’s case.
The coroner, Aisling Gannon, regretted that an autopsy could not determine the cause of death of Ms Kerr despite detailed medical investigations.
Delivering an open verdict, Ms Gannon noted that it was a position “that no family wants to find themselves in,” reports The Mirror.
A Kildare GP, Gerry Waters, who was suspended from practice by the Medical Council last year for refusing to offer his patients the Covid-19 vaccine, attended the inquest as a guest observer for Ms Kerr’s family .
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