Fact check: Ohio doctor who joked about shots didn't die from COVID-19 vaccine

The claim: Ohio doctor who joked about vaccine microchips died after receiving COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Thomas Flanigan joked after getting the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in February that the new microchip he had implanted with his Moderna shot was working just fine. “My mind is slowly being taken over by the hive mind,” he wrote alongside a selfie with his vaccination card in a Feb. 3 Facebook post. “We are just fine. Resistance is futile.”