U.S. Nurse Contracts Covid-19 After Receiving Vaccine

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Agency Report — An ICU nurse in San Diego, who had received Pfizer Inc. vaccine’s shot against COVID-19 on December 18 has tested positive for the virus.

Matthew W, a 45-year-old nurse in San Diego, told ABC News San Diego affiliate KGTV that after receiving the vaccine he had only ex­perienced arm soreness as a side-effect of the vaccine.

However, six days later after working a shift in the COVID-19 unit, he said he had chills, muscle pain and fatigue.

A coronavirus test con­firmed him positive for COVID-19, he said.

Following this incident, Dr. Christian Ramers, an infectious disease specialist with the Family Health Cen­tre of San Diego, told KGTV that this was not unexpected.

“We know from the vac­cine clinical trials that it is going to take about 10 to 14 days for you to start to de­velop protection from the vaccine.

“That first dose we think gives you somewhere around 50 percent and you need that second dose to get up to 95 percent,” Ramers further explained.

There is another possibil­ity that the nurse likely con­tracted COVID-19 before the vaccination but did not rule out the opposite, the expert added.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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