Wait .
Does that mean Pfizer vaccines are not effective against the Indian variant ? Anecdotal, I know, but still....
Hard to tell given how old the guy was. As a general rule you don’t want to make big conclusions on single case examples, no matter how compelling.
The real difficulty and frustration is the lack of reliable and useful info from India given both the scale of scope of the disaster meaning healthcare workers are overwhelmed just trying (and failing) to keep viable patients alive, so don’t have time to do proper analysis and reports on patient vaccination histories; and also due to deliberate suppression and active disinformation campaigns by the Indian state.
Frankly I don’t think we will know definitively if any of the Indian variants are vaccine resistant until we see an explosion of cases amongst the general population of them in other countries and we start to get proper analysis on the infection levels of fully vaccinated people to see if it is statistically significant. This will be more difficult and slower than usual due to the fact that most of the countries who have achieved high vaccination percentages tended to focus on the old and frail. Not only would that throw doubt on the results even if it can be shown; it will probably take much longer for significant case loads to build up in that demographic group than typical due to the fact that older people tend to not go out and socialise as much, so would naturally be less likely to be exposed to the Indian variant(s).
This is why I am extremely pessimistic on the chances of the west if the worst occurs and there are vaccine resistant variants. Because the west would not act decisively until there is overwhelming evidence of that, but by the time such evidence emerges, it is already far far too late to do much about it short of going into another lockdown.