Dr. Rajendra Kapila, a Rutgers University professor of medicine, died in late April while visiting India. A Rutgers spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on media reports claiming Kapila died of COVID-19 after receiving both doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the US.
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Dr Rajendra Kapila, an infectious disease expert at New Jersey’s Rutgers University (ABC6 News)
An American doctor who died of Covid-19 after travelling to India to care for family members was fully vaccinated with two Pfizer-BioNTech shots, his wife has reportedly confirmed.
Dr Rajendra Kapila, an infectious disease expert at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, died in a New Delhi hospital on 28 April aged 81,
Quoting his widow, Dr Deepti Saxena-Kapila, the paper reported Mr Kapila had received both doses of the vaccine in the US before the couple travelled to India in the last week of March.
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He suffered from diabetes and heart complications
Rutgers called him a “genuine giant in the field of infectious diseases”
Top infectious disease specialist and Rutgers University professor Dr. Rajendra Kapila has died of COVID-19 in India, nearly three weeks after testing positive for the virus. The founding member of the New Jersey Infectious Disease Society had reportedly received two Pfizer shots before heading to India to help care for his family. He was 81.
Dr. Kapila passed away on April 28, ABC News reported, citing the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times. According to the expert’s ex-wife, Dr. Bina Kapila, he visited India for a brief period to see his family amid the devastating COVID-19 surge there. He suffered from diabetes and heart complications, she was cited as saying by WABC.