On March 10, the Japanese government reported its first death deemed to be directly caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
A 42-year-old woman took her fourth dose of the Pfizer vaccine. In less than 10 minutes, she started feeling sick and experienced respiratory distress. Five minutes after, she fell unconscious. She didn’t respond to resuscitation and was pronounced dead from pulmonary edema, which is caused by a sudden build-up of fluid in the lungs.