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I don’t see anything about “personal knowledge” or “personally knowing” in your question, or in my reply.

Maybe not having “personal knowledge” (as you use the term) means that I have not been personally acquainted with someone who later died from effects of a COVID shot, with death attribution based on good evidence of which I am directly aware.

If so, it is true that I do not have “personal knowledge” of a death from a COVID vaccine.

But I also have not been personally acquainted with someone who later died of COVID disease—even if the cause of death was based on a third-party claim without any good evidence of which I am directly aware.

So I have no “personal knowledge” of anyone dying from COVID-19 either.

This is not surprising in either case. Most people dying of COVID-shot side effects, as well as most people having deaths attributed to COVID disease, are 70+ or 80+ years of age. I am not personally acquainted with a lot of people over 70, let alone over 80.

Even at 80+ the study-based estimated odds are only 1 in 100, or even 1 in 200, of dying from the effects of a COVID shot. These are low odds in the absolute sense—though a lot higher than other common vaccines.