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Olivia Quan

Olivia Quan was a Canadian recording engineer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She worked as a producer and engineer at Monarch Studios.[1] She died suddenly of a brain bleed on July 1, 2022 at age 25.[2]

COVID-19

Quan's employer, Monarch Studios, publicly disclosed that as of at least December 7, 2021, all of their audio engineers and interns had "been double-vaccinated for COVID-19."[3]

Quan died suddenly on July 1, 2022 while working on her laptop in bed at home. Monarch Studios announced her death on July 4, 2022 on Instagram.[4][5] It was revealed shortly after that she died of a brain bleed, which Monarch described as being of "natural causes."[2:1] In their statement, Monarch said they took comfort in the fact that they were "told she most likely lost consciousness immediately and died without prolonged discomfort."[5:1]

Quan is included in Edward Dowd's book, "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 as one of thousands of young adults who died in sudden and abnormal ways after the worldwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.[6]

  1. Engineers. Monarch Studios. Retrieved December 7, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211207025511/http://monarchstudios.com/engineers/ ↩︎

  2. Usinger, M. (2022, July 5). Remembered as tenacious and an immense talent, rising Vancouver recording star Olivia Quan has died at 25. The Georgia Straight. https://web.archive.org/web/20220719161536/https://www.straight.com/music/remembered-as-tenacious-and-an-immense-talent-rising-vancouver-recording-star-olivia-quan-has ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Contact. Monarch Studios. Retrieved December 7, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211207020711/http://monarchstudios.com/contact/ ↩︎

  4. Monarch Studios [@monarchstudios]. (2022, July 4). "It is with great sadness that we share our dear friend and engineer Olivia Quan has passed away…" [Post]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfm_om3pDMF/ ↩︎

  5. Roscoe, M. (2022, July 10). Cause of death revealed after Olivia Quan died suddenly aged 25. Euro Weekly News. http://archive.today/2022.08.21-060550/https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/07/10/cause-death-recording-engineer-olivia-quan-died-suddenly/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. Dowd, E. (2022). “Cause Unknown”: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022. Skyhorse Publishing. https://amzn.to/43dSuoF ↩︎