Medical Case Reports

Decreased Case Fatality Rate (CRD) in the Omicron era  was largely a result of the decreased pathogenicity of Omicron .  In one study of 101 470 patients , mortality rates were 0.7% for Delta (B.1.617.2), 0.4% for Omicron (B.1.1.529), and 0.3% for Omicron (BA.2) subvariants. Yet,  people keep dying from COVID even in the BA.5/BA4.6 variants era, since the severity of symptoms is affected by age and other health conditions.  One of the most recent October 2022 COVID-19 fatalities was a 62-year-old veteran competitive bodybuilder . He completed his primary vaccination series in April 2021. A 67-year old theoretical physicist  died on October 19th from complications of COVID-19 he had in September. A 63-year-old person with Navajo ancestry died after her 10-month battle with the original strain of Omicron.  By May 2022, more vaccinated individuals  aged 90 or more  died from COVID-19 than unvaccinated elderly of the same age. By mid-October 202...

59-year-old male got vaccinated with the first two doses of  Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021 . He received the recommended initial (third dose) and 2nd (fourth dose) booster shots following the CDC guidelines.  CDC strengthened its recommendation on the 1st booster shot for individuals who are 18 years and older in the end of November 2021 , if they were 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after their initial J&J vaccine. Following  FDA’s regulatory action, on March 29 2022, external icon CDC updated its recommendations to allow all people over the age of 50 who received an initial booster dose at least 4 months ago to be eligible for another mRNA booster to increase their protection against severe disease from COVID-19.  external icon , today, CDC is updating its recommendations to allow certain immunocompromised individuals and people over the age of 50 who received an initial booster dose at least 4 months ago ...

75-year old man who thought to be the longest-serving inmate in solitary confinement, having survived 43 years in a 6ft x 9ft cell in one of America's most brutal prisons, has died aged 75 from complications caused by Covid-19.   He was released in 2016 on his 69th birthday and went on with his life, wrote a remarkable memoir, won an American book award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer price.  Early July 2022, despite being vaccinated and boosted, he contracted COVID-19. He got better, but started to experience shortness of breath in the end of July and was taken to the hospital. He got fluid in his lungs. It cleared up with medicine, but that aggravated his heart. Once his heart seemed better, his kidney function dwindled. Scans showed that he had developed blood clots and had begun suffering strokes.  Doctors thought he would pull through, but he was intubated and never regained consciousness. REFERENCES https://lailluminator.com/2022/08/04/albert-woodfox-angola-3-...