An elderly Virginia man could have died if he did not seek medical help after suffering a severe adverse reaction to the Johnson & Johnson Covid jab.
74-year-old Richard Terrell recalls feeling the first symptoms four days after getting the one-shot vaccine.
“I began to feel a little discomfort in my armpit and then a few days later I began to get an itchy rash, and then after that, I began to swell and my skin turned red,” Terrell said.
“It all just happened so fast. My skin peeled off. It was stinging, burning, and itching. Whenever I bent my arms or legs, like the inside of my knee, it was very painful where the skin was swollen and was rubbing against itself.”
Doctors ruled that Terrell was living a reaction to the vaccine and that his condition was life-threatening.
“We ruled out all the viral infections, we ruled out Covid-19 itself, we made sure that his kidneys and liver were okay, and finally we came to the conclusion that it was the vaccine that he had received that was the cause,” Dr. Fnu Nutan said.
“Skin is the largest organ in the body, and when it gets inflamed like his was, you can lose a lot of fluids and electrolytes.”
But the doctor asserted that such severe reactions are very rare: “If you look at the risk for an adverse reaction for the vaccine it’s really, really low. We haven’t seen a great concern at all. I am a big proponent of the vaccine.”
