Alaska woman recovered from COVID catches virus for second time after being vaccinated

An Alaska woman revealed how she recovered from Covid only to catch the virus again after being vaccinated with a Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine.

Kim Akers, a 50-year-old Palmer resident, first contracted the virus in December.

She recovered and received the one-time dose of vaccine on March 5 before spending a weekend in the cabin at Lake Louise with family and friends, The Anchorage Daily News reported.

Akers, who has an underlying health condition, believed she was protected after previously recovering from the virus and waited more than two weeks after she was shot.

However, during his journey he began to feel unwell, feeling tired, nauseous and chest congestion – and later found that he had caught the virus again.

The news came as the FDA and CDC recommended a break in the US launch of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed rare blood clots and one died after receiving the shot.

“I still didn’t think there was anything wrong,” Akers told the newspaper. “I told my family I wanted to go home, ‘Don’t worry – it’s not COVID.’ I said that’.

In a Facebook post, Akers said that only when she returned home and was hit by a dividing headache, similar to what she experienced when she had Covid-19 last year and lost her sense of taste and smell. , thought it should be tested as a precaution.

“I didn’t think it was until I got home and I thought about my symptoms and I realized that this headache is what I remember,” she said. “Then I lost my taste and smell.”

Akers tested positive again and suffered a constant headache for three days. She says she has now recovered, although her sense of taste and smell have not yet recovered.

“Just because you’ve had Covid or been completely vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t test positive,” Akers wrote on Facebook.

The high school administrator told The Anchorage Daily News that he decided to make his story public to show the importance of vaccination.

“It would be great if he protected you completely,” she said, but she doesn’t have to get the vaccine.

“It’s to keep you out of the hospital and prevent death and hopefully lessen your symptoms.”

She added that her experience brought home the importance of wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

Akers is among at least 177 “discovered” patients identified in Alaska, health department spokesman Clinton Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News.

These are people who have reported positive tests for Covid-19 after full vaccination.

Vaccine studies have shown that the three US-approved vaccines prevent 66 to 95 percent of symptomatic infections, but we still don’t know how well vaccines prevent people from catching or spreading coronavirus.

So it is a little surprise that a relatively small number of people would give positive results even after vaccination.

Of the 177 patients in Alaska, one person needed hospitalization and no one died, Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News. Most of these individuals were asymptomatic.

Vaccine discovery cases are reported in the United States and elsewhere.

In late March, a New York woman revealed she tested positive for Covid-19 after receiving the Moderna vaccine.

Last week, Washington reported 100 revolutionary infections since February 1. Eight people needed hospitalization and two people over the age of 80 with underlying health conditions died.

It is not clear what vaccine they received.

In Michigan, 246 patients were reported to have caught coronavirus between January and March. At least 11 were hospitalized and three died.

Three Hawaiian residents also tested positive after receiving a vaccine, it was reported last month. It is not clear what vaccine they received.

Elsewhere, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez tested positive two months after receiving the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.