Emergency room nurse positive test for COVID-19 eight days AFTER he was vaccinated
- San Diego ER nurse Matthew W. received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18
- He started feeling bad on Christmas Eve and went to audition on December 26th
- Matthew tested positive for coronavirus, but has since started to feel better
- And while it is surprising to many, it is not unexpected, according to health experts who evaluated the case.
- Dr. Christian Ramers said: ‘It is nothing unexpected. If you work with the numbers, this is exactly what we would expect to happen if someone were exposed ‘
- Ramers said Matthew could have taken the coronavirus before being vaccinated
A California nurse tested positive for COVID-19 just eight days after receiving the vaccination.
Emergency room nurse Matthew W. received the vaccine from Pfizer on December 18, according to an Instagram post.
‘I have my Covid vaccine! 15 minutes later, sitting with a bunch of other people while health professionals asked us how we felt made me think of an opium den. I will report if I start to develop a third arm, ‘wrote Matthew.
But on Christmas Eve, Matthew, who works at two different hospitals in San Diego, started to feel bad after working a shift at the COVID-19 unit.
Emergency room nurse Matthew W (photo) received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18, according to an Instagram post
But on Christmas Eve, Matthew, who works at two different hospitals in San Diego, started feeling bad after working a shift at the COVID-19 unit. He said he first had chills before he started experiencing muscle pain and fatigue
He told ABC 10 News that he first had chills before he started experiencing muscle pain and fatigue.
On December 26, he went to a hospital to get tested for the virus and tested positive.
And while it is surprising, it is not unexpected, according to health experts who evaluated the case.
Dr. Christian Ramers, an infectious disease specialist at the Family Health Centers in San Diego, told the station: “This is nothing unexpected. If you work with the numbers, this is exactly what we would expect to happen if someone were exposed.
Ramers said it is possible that Matthew was infected before receiving the vaccine.
And if Matthew contracted the virus after the vaccine, he still agrees with what health professionals know.
“We know from clinical trials of the vaccine that it will take about 10 to 14 days for you to start developing vaccine protection,” said Ramers.
Ramers also said he is aware of other cases in which health workers were infected at the time they received the vaccine.
On December 26, Matthew (second from left) went to a hospital for a virus test and tested positive
“We believe that the first dose gives you around 50%, and you need the second dose to reach 95%,” added Ramers.
Matthew says he has been feeling better since his symptoms appeared last week.
The Trump administration’s goal of vaccinating the majority of the U.S. population in the first half of next year has been thwarted by the slow implementation of the program, which at the current pace could take nearly 10 years to complete, according to a new report.
Operation Warp Speed officials had pledged in recent months that 20 million Americans would receive the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2020 and 80 percent of the total population would be vaccinated by the end of June.
However, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that vaccination efforts are advancing at a slower pace than necessary, with only 2.1 million Americans received their first dose of the 11.4 million shipped earlier this month, through Monday.
At this rate, this means that more than 3 million people will need to be vaccinated daily to meet the June government deadline, according to a NBC News data analysis on Tuesday.
Alternatively, if vaccination efforts continue at the current pace, it will take nearly a decade to properly vaccinate 80 percent of the country’s 330.7 million residents so far, the report shows.