Fully vaccinated US doctor dies of Covid-19 in India

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A US infectious disease expert, Dr Rajendra Kapila, has died of coronavirus after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.

Kapila and his wife, Deepti Saxena Kapila, received the doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the United States before their return to India in March.

He was supposed to travel back to the US in the second week of April but had to be hospitalised in Delhi after testing positive for Covid.

The Rutgers University professor, however, passed away on April 18, aged 81.

“For the last one year, I have been working at a Covid-19 lab in New Jersey and had ensured a safe environment at home. Ironically, we came to India for two weeks and he contracted it here,” his wife, Dr Deepti, who specialises in microbiology, was quoted as saying.

After completing his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, Dr Kapila pursued his MD from College of Medical Sciences, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in 1964.

His profile available on the Rutgers University website mentions that Dr Kapila was an intern, resident and fellow at the Martland Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. He was also the assistant chief of medicine for the US Army in Okinawa, Japan, during the Vietnam conflict and a founding member of the New Jersey Infectious Disease Society.

Dr Kapila, who trained many people in the field of HIV-AIDS and practised at Rutgers University for 50 years, was bestowed with the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Many famous Indian doctors, who were trained by him, also remembered him with great fondness.

The United States and India are the worst hit nations in the world, accounting for over 33 per cent of the global 155 million cases.

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  1. My condolences. It’s unfortunate, after taking the vaccine yet he died of covid. That is why some of us will reman as anti vexxers because this people are deceiving the whole nations of the world.

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