A Texas woman claims to have tested positive for the new coronavirus after her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Paige Crain, a teacher in Austin, told the local KXAN news station that she received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine in late February. In addition to taking some “small freedoms,” Crain said he continued to adhere to security protocols surrounding the virus, as his youngest son is at high risk for serious illness.
Two weeks after his second dose, however, Crain said he started experiencing symptoms similar to those of the cold, claiming that he later tested positive for COVID-19.
“I didn’t expect it to be anything positive,” Crain told KXAN.
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Crain probably experienced a rare case of “discovery” of COVID-19 – meaning that she contracted the virus despite receiving the vaccine. But having the vaccine was also probably the reason why she had only mild symptoms, according to experts.
Dr. John Whyte, the medical director of the health WebMD website, said that, although rare, innovative cases are possible.
Vaccines are very good, he said, but “they are not 100% effective,” he told Fox News.
In fact, both Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus jabs – the last of which Crain said he received – are highly effective, but not 100% effective. Both jabs are considered 95% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID infection, with a person considered to be fully vaccinated at least two weeks after the second dose of any of the jabs. The same is true for those who are injected with a dose of coronavirus from Johnson & Johnson, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Whyte said that innovative cases can occur if someone becomes infected at the time they receive the vaccine or if they are exposed to the virus before their body has time to build up immunity after vaccination.
Innovative case reports occurred in other parts of the country, such as Minnesota earlier this month and Oregon in February, for example.
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“These cases are not unexpected,” said health officials in Oregon in a statement at the time. “Clinical trials of both vaccines currently in use have included groundbreaking cases.”
“No vaccine is 100% effective,” an expert told Prevention, adding that such cases are typically mild and “associated with low viral loads, which means that these individuals may not even be contagious.”
Whyte added that groundbreaking case reports serve as a reminder of “why we still need to take precautions” until experts say otherwise.