A nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after the vaccine was given, although medical experts say the timing is not unusual.
Emergency assistant Matthew W., who works at two different hospitals in San Diego, received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine on Dec. 18 and initially reported arm pain for a day, KGTV reported.
The 45-year-old nurse felt unwell after working her shift in the COVID-19 unit seven days later on Christmas Eve.
The nurse faces classic symptoms such as fatigue, chills and body aches. Two days later, Matthew was tested at a car hospital and his results were positive for coronavirus, according to the press.
Dr. Christian Ramers, an infectious disease specialist at Family Health Centers in San Diego, told KGTV that Matthew may have contracted the virus before he was shot, as it takes about two weeks for the first dose of vaccine to be given. between.
“We know from clinical trials about the vaccine that it will take about 10 to 14 days for you to start developing protection against the vaccine,” Ramers said. “This first dose, we think, gives you somewhere around 50%, and you need the second dose to get to 95 percent.”
Ramers added that people should not let their guard down even if they were vaccinated and that they should continue to follow protocols such as washing hands and wearing masks during the pandemic.
“You hear that health practitioners are very optimistic about the beginning of the end, but it will be a slow evolution, weeks to months, as we launch the vaccine,” said the specialist.