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The American News
Published by: Edward Era Barbacena
A nurse from California was found to be positive of coronavirus a week after receiving the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on Tuesday. According to health experts, it will take time to build an active immunity against covid-19 once the vaccine is received.
Mathew W., a nurse who works at two different local hospitals, posted on facebook that he received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18 and his arm became swollen for more than 12 hours but he didn't notice other side effects.
On Christmas eve, he became terribly ill, there was an increase in his body temperature accompanied with chills and experienced a deep, dull and nagging mascular pain with general fatigue shortly after working a shift in the covid-19 unit.
He went up to a drive-up hospital testing site and was found to be positive of the covid-19 on December 26.
Christian Ramer, an infectious disease specialist with Family Health Centers told ABC news that this scenario wasn't totally unexpected.
" We know from the vaccine clinical trials that it's going to take 10 to 14 days for you to start to develop protection from the vaccine, " Ramer said
" That first dose we think gives you somewhere around 50% and you need that second dose to get up to 95%," Ramer added.
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