78 years old with a history of heart problems.
39,000,000 people in the US have had at least one dose of the vaccines. And that population is largely made up of very old people who have battled life-threatening illnesses for years. The fact that some of them died in the hours, days, and weeks after receiving a vaccine is statistically normal. You could give them Tylenol or sugar pills or a haircut and see the same result. But nobody thinks haircuts cause death.
Every death is - and absolutely should be - fully investigated to ensure there is no causal link to the vaccines. If one is ever found, we should find out what exactly happened so we can limit the risk as much as possible down the road. However, with an Infection Fatality Rate of 0.65%, if you gave 39 million random Americans COVID-19, 253,500 of them would be dead. The vaccines are already saving lives, and will continue to do so.
And they’ll help us get away from the restrictions. The faster the vaccines are rolled out, the faster everything goes back to normal. I want everything back to normal.