Philip Sharp, a lifelong St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana resident who was believed to be the second oldest man in the United States, and the oldest man to get vaccinated against coronavirus, has died on March 2nd, 2021.

Sharp was 111 years old at the time of his death. He had received his second dose of the vaccine at Ochsner Health Center in Covington on February 5, 2021.

He spent his life as a trapper and cattle herder, working the land for most of his life.

Sharp held his driver’s license until only two years ago after a fall slowed the centenarian. Until the pandemic began last year, he still was a regular customer at the Lil’ Taste’a Cajun restaurant in the Lee Road community, where he dined every Thursday on the chicken and dumplings special, according to a local newspaper.

As of 16 March 2021, there have been at least 71 people aged 105 or over reported to have been vaccinated against COVID-19. 

Some others have died as well:

Olindina Juvencio

In Brazil, Olindina Juvencio was a 114 year old Brazilian of Portuguese descent, and was hospitalized for Covid-19 in September 2020 spending 8 days in the hospital, before being discharged and recovering from the disease.

In January 2021, Juvencio received the vaccine against coronavirus. She died of sepsis on February 20, 2021.

Ana Ribeiro Sicupira

Another woman in Brazil, Ana Ribeiro Doscher Sicupira was 111 when she received her first dose of covid-19 vaccine on February 9, 2021. She died in her sleep on February 11, 2021.

Marie-Claudine Fourrier 

In France, 110-year old Marie-Claudine Fourrier received her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on January 27, 2021. She died February 1, 2021.

At the time of her death, she was the second oldest living person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte.

For a complete list of the oldest people vaccinated against Covid-19, please click here.