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Do you know anyone who has been vaccinated, but subsequently contracted covid and died? *(Title edited)

141 replies

ChocOrange1 · 27/03/2021 16:07

Just looking for anecdata, which I know is not robust. I was wondering if anyone here knows someone who has died of covid after being vaccinated? Not including people who tested positive a few days after being vaccinated, where obviously they hadn't developed immunity yet. Just wondering really.

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HopeClearwater · 27/03/2021 16:15

Don’t you mean ‘died because they’ve been vaccinated? There are probably a few very old people who had the vaccination this year and then died a couple of months later. From old age.

2boysand1princess · 27/03/2021 16:15

What also would be interesting is to see how many became severely ill with covid after only the first dose

MonaChopsis · 27/03/2021 16:15

Just as anecdata, I knew 2 people who died of Covid before vaccinations were available, many more who were sick but didn't need hospitalisation.

AlexaShutUp · 27/03/2021 16:16

No

ChilliHeeler · 27/03/2021 16:17

No but statistically there will be people who have the vaccine and subsequently die (of unrelated reasons) the same way people get blood clots have heart attacks or strokes after being vaccinated. Coincidence.

TheLastSaola · 27/03/2021 16:17

No I don't.

But there will be some people who die of covid after being vaccinated. Although all trials showed 100% effectiveness against death, nobody expects it to be that high across the full population.

That's the reason for concern for a third wave, and why we need to vaccinate healthy young adults: to stop the transmission chain before covid infects the small minority of vulnerable adults who might die even after vaccination.

KarmaNoMore · 27/03/2021 16:18

Far more people have died of Covid before vaccination than after it (if any)

MrsFrisbyMouse · 27/03/2021 16:20

No. But I know two people who painted their front doors yellow. Grin

Lovelydovey · 27/03/2021 16:20

My DM is in ITU touch and go with covid. She had her vaccine at the start of March. She’d had a positive covid test at end December, two hospital admissions in Jan and Feb but was recovering and had had three negative covid tests. But she tested positive again 10 days after the vaccine. But then she’s a strange case - she’s immunosuppressed, they weren’t sure if the vaccine would work for her, and don’t whether this is a reinfection or not.

PuzzledObserver · 27/03/2021 16:20

No.

I know one who tested positive after being vaccinated (2 weeks after 1st dose). Had a sore throat and the snuffles for a couple of days, that's it.

7catsandcounting · 27/03/2021 16:21

I know someone who died of a bloodclot after the vaccine. That night. But she wasn't a well woman. 72. She had Addinson's disease.

MrsFrisbyMouse · 27/03/2021 16:23

@Lovelydovey
Really sorry to hear that. How difficult for you all. I hope she improves.

ThornAmongstRoses · 27/03/2021 16:23

Yes.

My friend and her husband both got Covid about 5-6 weeks after their first jab. She was ill with it, but manageable but he died about 5 days after the symptoms started. He was in the higher risk group for vaccination though (overweight and I think a mild chronic condition) so he was always going to be more vulnerable.

AvaCallanach · 27/03/2021 16:23

No, but itp (catastrophic loss of platelets) is a very rare acknowledged side effect of vaccination and my child did get itp after a flu vaccine and could easily have died, so I don't dismiss every report out of hand. It's just very rare (and also may occur after covid itself).

manicinsomniac · 27/03/2021 16:25

Might be worth getting your thread title changed, OP. A lot of people think you are questioning the safety of the vaccine, not its efficacy.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 27/03/2021 16:25

I know of a nursing home where they lost half their residents in the first wave. Then all had their first vaccine. Then they tested positive again (even residents who had already had covid Confused)but were all asymptomatic. So it's very reassuring Smile

SplendidSuns1000 · 27/03/2021 16:25

Our neighbour's mother passed at 87 just after her 2nd jab. She was very ill (not side effects of jab) and had a fall at home and passed shortly after.

PearlclutchersInc · 27/03/2021 16:26

I'll let you know when I've had mine on Wednesday Grin

annlee3817 · 27/03/2021 16:26

My Grandma's had the vaccine in January and is currently in hospital with Covid, on Wednesday she was rushed in and we were told to expect a phone call at some point that day to advise she'd passed away. Today she came off the oxygen and is going back to the care home on Tuesday as recovering, I can only assume having the first vaccine may have helped her

AliceMcK · 27/03/2021 16:27

No, but when asked the same question about covid my answer for the first 9 months was also no I didn’t know anyone personally who’d had it.

millenialblush · 27/03/2021 16:29

No. The guardian reported yesterday that 1 in 25 who have been admitted to hospital with covid in recent weeks had received the vaccine though, not sure where they got that data

saraclara · 27/03/2021 16:29

@NoSquirrels

Pretty sure you’d hear it on the news before you heard it on MN.
Exactly. And no, I don't. I did lose two friends to actual Covid though.
IstandwithJackieWeaver · 27/03/2021 16:30

@PearlclutchersInc

I'll let you know when I've had mine on Wednesday Grin
Snap - I'm having mine then. I have heard of relatives of colleagues dying with Covid, but of no one dying as a reaction to the vaccine.
saraclara · 27/03/2021 16:30

@millenialblush

No. The guardian reported yesterday that 1 in 25 who have been admitted to hospital with covid in recent weeks had received the vaccine though, not sure where they got that data
They had contracted Covid within days of the vaccine though, before the immune system had had chance to create antibodies and T cells.

It was a warning not to relax one's vigilance too soon, as it takes three weeks for the vaccination to become effective.

blue25 · 27/03/2021 16:31

No