
They’ve left the J&J vaccine on the market to avoid undermining confidence in a vaccine that will likely play a crucial role in bringing the global pandemic to an end. Federal health officials now recommend everyone take the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines instead. When it’s 8 million doses and two people are going to die from it, who thinks it’s going to be you?Īccording to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women between ages 30 and 49 appear to be at highest risk for the complication that killed Melkonian.

Instead, he is left to tell her story and protect her legacy. Thomas believes his wife would be alive today had the information about potential side effects been shared even a few days earlier. known to have died from vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a rare side effect of the J&J vaccine, and a victim of tragic timing. The 52-year-old woman is one of only nine people in the U.S. confirmed to have died from vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia - a rare side effect of the Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccine. Melkonian is one of nine people in the U.S. Stan Thomas placed photos and keepsakes around the urn containing the ashes of his wife, Monica Melkonian, in his home outside Bend, Ore. “We were literally talking about how amazing our lives have been and how lucky we were,” Thomas said. They watched the moon rise and the stars come out in the dark Central Oregon sky.

Late into the evening, they soaked in their hot tub, drinking champagne and margaritas, eating strawberry shortcake.

They walked their lot identifying the projects they wanted to complete that summer. He hung a ceiling fan in their garage where he works on motorcycles. Despite her ongoing headaches, she and her husband, Stan Thomas, spent the next Saturday working around their home.
