Mom blames COVID vaccines after her 17-year-old athlete son and husband were hospitalized

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A mother in Utah is blaming COVID-19 vaccines after her 17-year-old son and her husband were both hospitalized with rare blood clots soon after receiving the shots.

'There's no other explanation for what happened to my son and my husband, we are pretty certain that it was a direct result of the vaccine,' Cherie Romney said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday.

Romney's son Everest, a healthy six-foot-nine high school basketball player, got his first Pfizer shot on April 21 and began experiencing severe symptoms less than 24 hours later, and her husband Preston suffered clots after getting a Moderna shot, she has said.

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'We felt a lot of pressure to go get the vaccine. We thought, let's hurry and go get that done before the summer season of basketball starts,' she said.

'I didn't think there was a chance my son or my husband or myself really were going to experience some significant side effects from COVID,' Romney said.

'My son being an athlete and only 17 years old wasn't in a high risk category, but we did feel pressured to administer the vaccine,' she added.

Romney said that Everest began to develop swelling in his neck later that night, and that five days later he was unable to move his head or neck.

'I took him to the pediatrician and the pediatrician said it has nothing to do with the shot, it really doesn't, I think it is a pulled neck muscle,' she said.

Eight days later, Everest was in the pediatric ICU with two blood clots in his brain and one in his neck, Romney said.

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Romney says that her husband Preston was hospitalized 'with over 100 blood clots in his lungs' the weekend after her son was discharged from the hospital in May.

She has said that her husband had to have a quarter of his lungs removed to treat the clots. He has also since been released and is in stable condition.

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