when this story broke.
From https://www.factcheck.org/2018/12/no-evidence-new-york-legislator-died-from-flu-shot/
The weekend before Thanksgiving, New York State Sen. José Peralta worked at a community event offering the flu shot for free.
“The senator was a huge advocate of public health,” his spokesman, Chris Sosa, told FactCheck.org.
Peralta, 47, died days later, on Nov. 21. While Sosa said his official cause of death is still pending, his wife told the New York Post that preliminary results show he died of “septic shock” — which occurs when sepsis leads to dangerously low blood pressure. Sepsis, caused by the body’s response to an infection, can be life-threatening if left unchecked.
But an “alternative news” story posted Nov. 27 on a website called Collective Evolution exploits Peralta’s death, and his advocacy, by suggesting his death resulted from the flu vaccine.The author includes an important caveat: “[T]here is no way for me to know for sure whether the flu shot was the cause of, or was a contributing factor in Jose Peralta’s death.” But the article makes misleading and speculative statements that all but draw an unsupported connection between Peralta’s flu shot and his death…
…The story goes on to cite a Nov. 22 New York Times article that quotes Sosa as saying Peralta had resisted going to a doctor despite not feeling well, but eventually went for an exam. “It was like pulling teeth to get him to talk about not feeling well,” Sosa told the Times. “He just thought he was having symptoms related to getting the flu shot.”..
From https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/nyregion/jose-peralta-dominican-american-senator-dead.html
Though he had been ill for at least two weeks, he had been reluctant to visit a doctor, according to Chris Sosa, his director of communications. After much prodding, he finally went for an exam recently, and he had a follow-up scheduled for December.
“It was like pulling teeth to get him to talk about not feeling well,” Mr. Sosa said. “He just thought he was having symptoms related to getting the flu shot.”
https://nypost.com/2018/11/23/new-york-state-senator-jose-peraltas-cause-of-death-revealed/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sepsis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351214