Italian officials have launched a manslaughter investigation after a 57-year-old music teacher died after receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to local media reports, as officials with the firm and state regulators said there is no evidence that the drug causes blood clots. Prosecutors in the northern Italian region of Piedmont announced they opened a manslaughter probe into the death of Sandro Tognatti, who received the vaccine in his hometown of Biella on Saturday. His wife told news outlets that he went to bed that night with a high fever. The next day, she said, an ambulance was called for him, and he later died. The local prosecutor in Biella, where Tognatti lived, announced the opening of a criminal case for manslaughter after his death, reported Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper. Teresa Angela Camelio, the prosecutor, announced that the move “follow[s] the decision of the Piedmont Region to suspend ‘momentarily’ the administration of the AstraZeneca …
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