Fully vaccinated New Orleans woman dies of COVID aged 33 in rare breakthrough case

A 33-year-old woman who was fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has died from the virus in a rare ‘breakthrough’ case.

Angelle Mosley, of New Orleans, Louisiana, died Sunday after falling ill Thursday.

She had been convinced that she did not have COVID-19, according to her mother, because she had been fully vaccinated and was not showing some of the key symptoms of the virus, such as loss of taste and smell.

“She said ‘I know I don’t have COVID. I can still smell and taste. And I’m vaccinated.’ But when she got to the hospital, [it] it turns out she had it, “Tara Mosley told WDSU News.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fully vaccinated people are “much less likely” to be infected with COVID-19, but that a “small percentage of people” will still contract the virus.

He calls these rare incidents “vaccine breakthrough cases”.

As of July 19, 2021, more than 161 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and the CDC had received reports of 5,914 vaccine breakthrough cases.

Of these, 1,141 fully vaccinated people had died from COVID-19 and out of 5,601 had been hospitalized.

Some 292 (26%) of those who died and 1,529 (27%) of those who were hospitalized were initially reported as asymptomatic.

The CDC says these numbers “are probably underestimated.”

Mosley, who started her first business in June, texted her mother last Thursday, complaining that she was not feeling well. She visited a hospital the same day, before being diagnosed and released.

Her neighbor took her back to the hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning when her condition deteriorated.

Mosley told her mother she had pneumonia and a high fever. She passed away later that day.

Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are the three that are currently cleared for emergency use in the United States, and CDC says all three provide protection against “most” variants virus.

Some variations, however, can cause cases of rupture.

“While these vaccines are effective, no vaccine prevents disease 100% of the time. For any vaccine, there are breakthrough cases,” the CDC said.

The public health agency says it is working with state and local health departments to investigate breakthrough cases of the COVID-19 vaccine, but says it has yet to identify an unusual pattern.

The Mosley family urged people to continue wearing face masks and getting vaccinated, and Tara Mosley also urged leading healthy lives.

“One of the things I will say contributed to her death, Angelle was tall for her age. She was obese,” she said, referring to the fact that people with underlying health issues are more vulnerable to the worst effects of the virus.

COVID cases are on the rise in nearly 90% of jurisdictions in the United States, with the Delta variant accounting for over 80% of recent cases.