Portuguese health worker, 41, dies two days after getting the Pfizer covid vaccine

Forty-one-year-old and mother of two, Sonia Acevedo, who worked in pediatrics at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto suffered a sudden death on New Year’s Day 48 hours after the Pfizer vaccine jab.

Ms. Acevedo had not suffered any adverse side-effects after being vaccinated. An Autopsy is expected to take place by tomorrow. Ms. Acevedo’s father Abilio Acevedo told the Saturn Herald,  his daughter had not had any health problems. Ms. Acevedo had worked at IPO Porto, a national and international reference health institution in cancer treatment, research, and education for more than 10 years.  She lived with her family in Maia near Porto but died at her partner’s home in Trofa half an hour’s drive north of Porto.

Portugal with a population of 10 million has reported 7,196 deaths and 431, 623 cases with a sharp rise in the second wave since Christmas.