There are several possibilities here and I'm trying not to gaslight you at all:1-) good friends mother: (89 yo)
Both shots done. One month after visiting, exactly a month after his mom's second shot my buddy came down here to catch some waves. He was here for 3 weeks, and a month after returning (so, 2 months and 3 weeks after her second vax) he lost his mother.
Due to covid, according to the public autopsy. Private autopsy revealed severe clotting in her brain.
2-) mother in laws elderly residence roommate: (76 yo)
3 months after 2nd vax, died of cerebral hemorrhage.
Public autopsy: covid
Private autopsy: severe cerebral hemorrhage
3-) sister in laws ex: (48 yo)
1 month after 2nd vax, dead.
Public autopsy: covid
Private autopsy: none carried out. (His parents were too distraught to even think about it)
These above are all first hand, personally known, cases. Surely there's lots and lots of others.
P.S. I "thank" British tourism for covid in Fuerteventura. Before we opened up to them, the case load was strictly nominal for an island of 125,000-150,000. The week after they started coming, our cases spiked severely.
1. They actually caught COVID and died of it. The vaccines are leaky, meaning you can still catch COVID several months after getting vaccinated, especially if you're elderly. WHile the vaccines still prevent serious illness even after their protection against transmission and infection wanes, when you're old and frail you're old and frail. The vaccines were not tested on this group.
2. The clots were caused by vaccines. I think this effect would show up within 14 days of the second shot. They try to measure this by seeing if the background rate of these events has exceeded historic norms. IMO, this is tough to estimate. However, they used 10s of thousands of people in the original trials and didn't see these events so they're rarer than 1/100,000. This still makes for an iffy cost/benefit trade-off for a disease that only kills 1/50,000 - 1/100,000, so you have to look at rates of hospitalization from the disease and rates from adverse events of vaccines. Martin Kuldorff of Harvard and several independent contractors helped the CDC with vaccine safety surveillance, which is reassuring. OTOH, the CDC fired him for warning not to suspend J&J infections because it was unnecessary and would increase vaccine hesitancy. He was right but was fired. This is the opposite of reassuring. Science has been politicized to a dangerous level in the past 18 months:
How the Pandemic Is Changing Scientific Norms
Imperatives like skepticism and disinterestedness are being junked for political warfare that has little in common with scientific methodology
www.tabletmag.com
What I'm trying to say is that there's a strong political bias in favor of ignoring adverse events which made me hesitant and still does. Also, look what happened to your wife.
3. They were simply old and died. When you get old, you're likely to die. My grandmother was vaccinated sometime around April and died last week at 100. Arguably the vaccines bought her several more months of life given the Delta's R0, but she was old.
Overall, this is not headed in a good direction. The vaccines worked as measured in the trials. and we should've just rejoiced and gone on with our lives. Instead we're headed for N rounds of freakouts over variants, boosters, continuing dubious, high-cost mitigation measures, onerous restrictions, etc. This is all headed in a bad direction.