A mother-of-two has died after complications from the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
Alpa Tailor, 35, fell ill just over a week after getting her jab in March of this year.
St Pancras Coroner's Court heard she had been suffering from headaches and a day later had begun to experience paralysis on the left side of her body, reports The Mirror.
Her husband Anish said: “The death of our beloved Alpa has left a huge void in our hearts and our lives, we will all truly miss her unconditional love. Alpa was a wonderful wife, loving mother, amazing daughter, sister and friend.
“Life has changed for us in an unimaginable way."
A relative said “She always had a smile on her face, enthusiastic and very creative.
“Hundreds of hearts have been touched in her 35 years of life. Her laugh is something none of her friends and family can ever forget.
"Anytime you see a photo of her smiling, you can hear her laughter in your head.
“She was loving, caring, and always put the needs of her children before hers. Her two kids, aged six and 22 months, were her pride and joy.
“She would want nothing but protection and love for them and has created amazing memories that they have to look back at when they are older.
“They will never forget their mummy, as her oldest knows mummy's the brightest star in the sky, and she's always there."
The inquest heard that Alpa had to be rushed to the National Hospital on April 8 after showing all the signs of a stroke, including slurred speech.
Following a series of blood tests she was diagnosed with a new syndrome called vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT).
The syndrome affects one in every 50,000 people under 50 who have had their first Covid jab.
At the time of Alpa's admission around 250 people had been diagnosed with VITT and around 50 people had died.
She initially responded well to treatment following surgery that afternoon but by April 22 doctors noticed a change in brain function caused by massive brain haemorrhaging.
A post-mortem found Alpa had multiple brain clots.
Jonathan Hyam, the neurosurgeon at UCLH who performed Alpa’s surgery said: “This condition was a relentless wave of clots in multiple areas.
“A week or so after the surgery I was actually quite optimistic, I thought we had got her through a real nasty condition and I was really surprised when I found out about the tragic demise approximately two weeks afterwards.”
Professor Scully told the inquest: “Nobody could have considered diagnosing a brand new syndrome at this stage. It's completely out of the blue.
"In April the number of people dying was very very few. Because of those statistics the UK has decided anyone under the age of 40 doesn't receive an Astra Zeneca vaccination - because the risk of dying from COVID is so low compared to the risk of dying from VITT which has a significant mortality."
Senior coroner Mary Hassell said: “Everything points in the same direction which is that Alpa had the AstraZeneca vaccination at a time when many many thousands of people in this country had died from coronavirus.
“And at the time when it was not known that there was a risk with one particular vaccine - the AstraZeneca vaccine - especially for younger patients.
“It’s very easy to look at this now and think if only she hadn’t, if only a different decision had been made, but she made the same decision that many millions of people in this country made.
“She was part of a vaccination programme which has saved many many lives but very sadly the AstraZeneca vaccination we now know does carry this really rare risk.
“There’s going to be somebody who’s affected by this and this was Alpa. Having heard all the evidence I have no hesitation in saying that she died as a consequence of the vaccination.”
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