A mother died from a "catastrophic" bleed on the brain caused by a rare side-effect of the Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has concluded.
Kim Lockwood, 34, complained of an excruciating headache eight days after her AstraZeneca jab in March 2021.
Her condition quickly deteriorated and she was pronounced dead 17 hours after being admitted to Rotherham Hospital.
South Yorkshire Coroner Nicola Mundy said Mrs Lockwood had been "extremely unlucky".
At Doncaster Coroner's court, she recorded the cause of death as Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) and returned a verdict of misadventure.
Little was known about the link between the Covid-19 jab and VITT at the time of Mrs Lockwood's death, the coroner said, but "medical advances" meant the condition was better-recognised since the initial vaccine rollout.
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