Fully Vaccinated New Orleans Woman Dies of COVID Aged 33 in Rare Breakthrough Case
By Aatif Sulleyman On 7/27/21 at 6:06 AM EDT
A 33-year-old woman who was fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has died from the virus in a rare "breakthrough" case.
Angelle Mosley, from New Orleans, Louisiana, passed away on Sunday after falling ill on Thursday.
She had been convinced that she didn't have COVID-19, according to her mother, because she had been fully vaccinated and wasn't experiencing some of the key symptoms of the virus, such as loss of taste and smell.
"She said 'I know I do not have COVID. I still can smell and taste. And I am vaccinated.' But when she got to the hospital, [it] turns out she had it," Tara Mosley told WDSU News.
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The Mosley family has urged people to continue wearing face masks and getting vaccinated, and Tara Mosley has also recommended living a healthy lifestyle.
"One of the things that I will say contributed to her death, Angelle was large for her age. She was obese," she said, referring to the fact that people with underlying health conditions are more vulnerable to the worst effects of the virus...