Medical Case Reports

 A 64-year-old man with underlying health conditions tests positive for COVID-19 before a family gathering (~2 months after his third booster shot of a COVID-19 vaccine).  The disease remains very mild in severity until the evening of December 28th (~5 days after positive test) when he was rushed to the hospital with chest pain. He died within hours of admission to the hospital from COVID sepsis and a heart attack.  REFERENCES https://www.facebook.com/philla.barkhorn/posts/10224220961905174 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-helck-family-recover-from-their-loss https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/bucks/obituaries/triple-vaxxed-nj-dad-rutgers-grad-dies-of-covid-19-complications/823156/ https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/triple-vaxxed-cranbury-resident-dies-covid-complications

  A study from Israel reports 202 deaths among those who were 50 years of age or older at the start of the study and had received two doses of BNT162b2 at least 5 months earlier.  65  of them also received a booster dose.  For participants in the study, sociodemographic data and score for socioeconomic status as well as  diseases such  as diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic kidney failure, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, chronic heart failure, obesity, lung cancer, or a history of cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack, or smoking was analyzed, but  n o individual-level analysis was provided.  A total of 843,208 participants met the eligibility criteria, of whom 758,118 (90%) received the booster during the 54-day study period. Death due to Covid-19 occurred in 65 participants in the booster group (0.16 per 100,000 persons per day) and in 137 participants in the nonbooster group (2.98 p...