A New Jersey man is in the hospital with COVID-19 – just five weeks after he was vaccinated.
Francisco Cosme, 52, was ecstatic when he booked an appointment for the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine at the Javits Center on March 6.
After Cosme was vaccinated, he continued to wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines, but became “very confused and began to do things that were not normal,” his daughter, Michelle Torres, told The Post.
“April 1 was the very first day he started having symptoms,” Torres said. “He had a cough, a fever, chills, everything.”
The 31-year-old took her father to a clinic where she tested positive for COVID-19 and was asked to quarantine for 10 days.
Last week, his condition worsened and Torres noticed he had trouble breathing and called 911 during a visit to his home in Edison, New Jersey.
After giving oxygen to Cosme, the ambulance crew rushed him to John F. Kennedy Medical Center, where he is in critical condition and is also being treated for pneumonia.
“I try to hold her together, every day you don’t know what’s going on,” said a tearful Torres.
“The doctor said they did everything they could and it’s up to him to fight to God.”
Torres told The Post that the mother, husband and children have come to positive results at COVID and are in quarantine until next Sunday.
“I survived the whole year without him [vaccine] doing all the things we should be doing – social distancing, hand washing and masking, ”she explained.
“It’s crazy and we need answers,” Torres said.
The station also reported that a Brooklyn woman who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javitz Center on March 10 contracted COVID-19.