The victims of AstraZeneca's vaccine trends now
Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved millions of lives, by both protecting people from the virus and helping end the paralysing series of lockdowns.
But for dozens of families in the UK, one type of vaccine — the version made by AstraZeneca — resulted in the devastating loss of one of their loved ones.
As families and survivors continue their fight for compensation, MailOnline highlights just some of those who have died:
Tom Dudley, 31
Tom Dudley, 31, from Sheffield, died from a blood clot triggered by the AstraZeneca jab ten days before medics were told to offer an alternative to the age group
Tom Dudley, 31, who had no underlying health conditions, got his first dose of the AstraZeneca jab near his home in Sheffield on April 27, 2021.
The 30-plus age group was not called forward for Covid vaccine until late May.
It is not clear if the father-of-two was called forward for a jab early as some people who lived with vulnerable Brits were or, as happened at various points during the initial vaccine rollout, he was able to get a jab early in his area.
Tom, who worked as a carpet salesman, soon began to suffer headaches — a common side effect of the British-made vaccine that normally fades within days.
Two weeks after getting the jab, he was found unresponsive in the early hours at the home he shared with his partner Simone and their two daughters.
The Sheffield United fan was rushed to Northern General Hospital, but doctors said the bleed on his brain was 'incurable' and he died three days later.
It is not clear if this bleed was specifically caused by a condition called vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT), which causes dangerous blood clots to form in various parts of the body, including the brain.
However, a medic who treated the father-of-two in hospital told an inquest into Tom's death that it was 'fair to say' he would still be alive today if he was given a different vaccine.
Britain's medical regulator recommended under-30s should get an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine in early April when it became clear that younger people were at greater risk of the clots — but it did not widen the advice to under-40s until May 7.
Mr Dudley's GP said that given his age, lack of underlying conditions and the medical advice at the time, it was appropriate to give him AstraZeneca's jab.
Coroner Tanyka Rawden recorded his cause of death as a bleed on the brain, caused by the vaccine.
Common side effects, which health bosses say can affect more than 10 per cent of recipients, include fatigue, 'flu-like' symptoms, and pain in the arms or legs. Stomach pain, a rash and excessive sweating were uncommon, strikes roughly one in 100 people who get vaccinated
Rare (approximately one in 1,000) issues include facial drooping on one side. Very rare (one in 10,000) side effects can see people paralysed
Jack Hurn, 26
Jack Hurn, 26, died less than two weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in June 2021. An inquest heard he was told there was no Pfizer jab in stock and was given out-of-date information in relation to blood clot risks associated with the vaccine
Jack Hurn, from Redditch, died from 'catastrophic' blood clots after receiving AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine.
The 26-year-old died in June 2021, less than two weeks after receiving the jab at a Dudley vaccine centre.
A week-long inquest at Birmingham Coroner's Court heard that a GP informed Jack the risk of blood clots on the brain for his age group was one in 250,000, when NHS guidance had actually estimated it to be one in 50,000.
The inquest heard the automotive design graduate chose to go ahead with the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine on May 29, 2021, after being told there was no Pfizer jab in stock.
Jack, originally from Devon, began suffering with headaches within days and died on June 11 at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, despite emergency surgery.
Doctors allegedly described him as having 'catastrophic' blood clots on the brain.
Emma Brown, HM Area Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, ruled in a report that his death was 'due to a rare but recognised complication' of the vaccination.
Kelly Dunley, 38
Kelly Dunley, pictured, died weeks after having the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, something a coroner has ruled contributed to her death
Kelly Dunley, 38, died after developing a deep vein thrombosis — a type of blood clot — after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid jab, a coroner ruled.
Kelly, from Stoke-on-Trent, had her first jab on March 2, 2021.
The 30-plus age group was not called forward for Covid vaccine until late May that year.
It is not clear if Kelly was called forward for a jab early or if she was able to get a jab early in the area.
She was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital on May 17, 2021, after collapsing.
Despite the best efforts of medics, she died at the hospital on the same day. A post-mortem found a blood clot in her leg had travelled to her lung.
The examination also found that she had a laceration to her liver, which was likely caused by the attempted resuscitation, and an abnormal spleen.
A coroner ruled last year that her death was a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis and was linked to 'complications of the vaccine'.
Oli Akram Hoque, 26
Trainee solicitor Oli Akram Hoque, 26, received a dose of the vaccine on March 19, 2021 before suffering increasingly 'excruciating' headaches
Oli Akram Hoque, 26, from Ilford, died from a rare blood clot weeks after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The trainee solicitor received his first dose on March 19, 2021, before suffering increasingly 'excruciating' headaches and vomiting blood.
People in their late 20s were not called forward for the initial jab rollout until June.
It is unclear if Oli was called in for a jab early or if he was able to get a vaccine sooner than expected in his area.
He died at Queen's Hospital in Romford on April 15, 2021 — one month before his 27th birthday.
His father told an inquest that Oli had gone to the urgent treatment centre located at the Royal London Hospital on April 5.
However, he said his son was was 'discharged without proper diagnosis or investigation' with an injection to stop him being sick.
His father also said Oli had 'requested a scan to be carried out but his request was declined'.
He later had a seizure and was taken back to Queen's Hospital where a CT scan identified a blood clot. He was then put on blood thinners but later died in hospital.
Britain's medical regulator recommended under-30s should get an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine in early April when it became clear that younger people were at greater risk of the clots.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is a genetically engineered common cold virus that used to infect chimpanzees. It has been modified to make it weak so it does not cause illness in people and loaded up with the gene for the coronavirus spike protein, which Covid-19 uses to invade human cells
Nicola Weideling, 45
Nicola Weideling died of a stroke caused by the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab. She is pictured with her husband, Kurt
Nicola Weideling died of a stroke caused by the AstraZeneca jab.
The 45-year-old Oxford University Press executive suffered catastrophic bleeds on her brain after being hospitalised with blood clots caused by the vaccine.
She received the jab 24 days prior on April 21.
Her husband, Kurt, paid tribute to her during an inquest into her death saying she was 'a supporter and believer in getting vaccinated. She went on the first or second day she was eligible for her age group to get vaccinated'.
Nicola had complained to her GP following her jab about neck pain but the link to jab was not made until she was taken to hospital with several other symptoms of blood clots.
A post-mortem examination showed Nicola died on May 15, 2021 after suffering a stroke caused by VITT.
Alpa Tailor, 35
Alpa Tailor, 35, fell ill just over a week after getting her first dose of the coronavirus jab in March 2021
Mother-of-two Alpa Tailor, 35, died from blood clots on her brain caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Alpa fell ill just over a week after getting her first dose of the coronavirus jab in March 2021.
The 30-plus age group was not called forward for Covid vaccine until late May that year.
It is not clear if Alpa was called forward for a jab early or if she was able to get a jab early in the area.
St Pancras Coroner's Court heard that Alpa was complaining of a headache before she suffered stroke-like symptoms, including slurred speech and a facial droop.
She was rushed to hospital on April 8 and quickly diagnosed with the then-new complication VITT.
Alpa had surgery to relieve pressure on her brain and, whilst doctors initially thought she had responded well to treatment, on April 22, medics discovered she was suffering from massive brain haemorrhaging.
The devoted mother, who had the jab to 'protect her family', died on April 24 and a post-mortem examination found she had suffered multiple brain clots.
Lisa Shaw, 44
Lisa Shaw, an award-winning radio presenter, died aged 44 in May 2021 after having the Covid vaccine
Lisa Shaw, an award-winning radio presenter on BBC Radio Newcastle, died in May 2021.
Until she was admitted to hospital she had been fit, healthy and fizzing with the sort of energy her job on the morning show required.
Lisa had been vaccinated on April 29, but started developing headaches a week later.
On May 13, she was admitted to hospital where her husband Gareth Eve, now 43, was handed a print-out explaining what VITT was.
At first doctors were confident they could treat it, but on May 16, Lisa started to have speech problems.
Her husband, Gareth Eve, recalled: 'We were having a conversation about [their son] Zach's swimming lessons and she couldn't get out the word "goggles".'
It was discovered she had suffered a bleed on the brain, and was rushed to surgery where part of her skull was removed to ease the pressure.
She never recovered and spent the last five days of her life on a ventilator, as her family gathered in shock.
Lisa died on May 21 leaving behind her six-year-old son Zach.
In a very small number of cases — about one in 100,000 in the UK — the vaccine can set off a chain reaction which leads to the body confusing its own blood platelets for fragments of virus. The shell of the vector vaccine — the weakened cold virus used to teach cells how to neutralise Covid — sometimes acts like a magnet and attracts platelets, a protein found in the blood. For reasons the scientists are still probing, the body then mistakes these clumps as a threat and produces antibodies to fight them. The combination of the platelets and the antibodies clumping together leads to the formation of dangerous blood clots
Stephen Wright, 32
Dr Stephen Wright with his wife Charlotte. Dr Wright, 32, who worked as a clinical psychologist in south-east London , suffered a blood clot to the brain after having his first dose of the jab in January 2021
Dr Stephen Wright, 32, who worked as a clinical psychologist in south-east London, suffered a blood clot in the brain after having his first dose of the jab in January 2021.
He was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic.
Stephen suffered from a combination of a brainstem infarction, bleed on the brain and 'vaccine-induced thrombosis'.
He was taken to Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington and moved to King's College Hospital as his condition rapidly worsened. But the nature of the bleed meant Stephen was unfit for surgery. He died on the evening of January 26.
Regarding the official documents detailing Stephen's death, a coroner said: 'It is very important to record as fact that it is the AstraZeneca vaccine – but that is different from blaming AstraZeneca.
'He attended an A&E department just after midnight where was found to have high blood pressure and a sagittal sinus thrombosis.
'He was transferred to King's College Hospital at 6.39am but, due to the extent of the bleed and very low platelets, was unfit for surgery.'
Medical experts told the court nothing could be done to save him as his
