[MarMema]

A sore throat could be bacterial, and bacterial infections can kill quite quickly. A staph infection, followed by toxic shock, maybe.

There is not a nurse out there who would vaccinate a septic child/teen.

[exDemMom]

There is not a nurse out there who would vaccinate a septic child/teen.

Indeed. That is a troubling aspect of this story. Assuming the sore throat was the proximate cause of death (big assumption, since no autopsy results are out), I think the practitioner who gave the shot may be open to a malpractice suit.