The 2020 death of a former pharmaceutical worker and prominent anti-vaccine activist at age 44 is being discussed online with speculation about her cause of death. The activist, who founded an anti-vaccine website, wrote a year before her death that, if anything happened to her, “it’s foul play.” Shortly after her death, conspiracists began claiming that she was “murdered by Big Pharma.”
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While any death is tragic, there is no evidence of any foul play. Emphasizing that government health authorities investigate all claims of reported injuries or side effects after vaccination is recommended. In this case, the death was investigated and determined to be caused by pulmonary thromboembolism, a blood clot blockage in a lung artery. The activist’s death is being used to fuel distrust in vaccine manufacturers and, by extension, vaccines. Fact Checking Source(s):
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