California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: ABC

[safeinOhio]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccine/california-nurse-tests-positive-over-a-week-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-abc-idUSKBN2940QL



(Reuters) - A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported bit.ly/2L8iBel on Tuesday.

Matthew W., a nurse at two different local hospitals, said in a Facebook post on December 18 that he had received the Pfizer vaccine, telling the ABC News affiliate that his arm was sore for a day but that he had suffered no other side-effects.

[TexasTowelie]

1. The shot isn't 100% effective

and it is also possible that he became infected during the time after the vaccination when he was still developing antibodies.

[napi21]

2. AS I understand it, the first shot doesn't take effect for a several days to over a week or so, for

the first shot to take effect & it takes 2 shots to get the 90+% immunity.

[left-of-center2012]

3. According to the link included in the OP ...

It takes 10 to 14 days for the vaccine to cause protection.

Hopefully the vaccine lowers any illness brought on by an infection after the vaccination.

[ClusterFreak]

6. Yep. Up to two weeks.

Vaccines always seem to carry a caveat such as this, at least the flu shot does. Clearly it's the same deal for the Covid-19 vaccine.

An aside, for the OP not you left-of-center2012 .... I wish when people start threads like this they would ask themselves if they are being unnecessarily alarmist in doing so. Without the added context of the two week lag in effectiveness, it would seem as if there could be a disturbing crack in the vaccine's armor. There isn't. This is normal.

[marybourg]

9. The information appears truthful and is newsworthy. In addition, it

contains a warning to continue to exercise care even after vaccination. Are you advocating viewpoint suppression? Self-censorship?

[ClusterFreak]

10. No I'm advocating contextualizing an alarmist headline. n/t

[RandySF]

4. Oh shit.

[My Pet Orangutan]

5. The Pfizer vaccine is a two shot regimen.

Full protection comes a week or so after the second shot.

[Sunsky]

7. Exactly

Both vaccines require a booster shot.

[dansolo]

8. I hope that people aren't being careless after the first vaccine shot

My fear is that people are going to assume they are immune immediately after getting the shot, and stop being diligent about mask usage and social distancing. I suspect we are going to see a lot more stories like this.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. A Fair Concern

Even a bulletproof vest isn't completely bulletproof.

[BGBD]

12. This board is really bad at

Being overly alarming. There are many problems with this report.

1: the shot isn't effective immediately, it takes weeks to work.
2: it is a 2 shot regime.
3: 95% effectiveness means it will stop 19/20 infections, not all of them.
4: is the nurse seriously ill? The shot has proven to decrease severity in those that do get infected.
5: when was the nurse infected? A week+ lag time between infection and a positive test would not be abnormal.
6: this is highly anecdotal.

Lets just start looking at things a bit more scientifically and not as alarmists.

[former9thward]

13. Yes, but posters get stories like this from the media.

And the media is terrible at health reports. They always are alarmist and leave out needed information. People who become journalists rarely take science courses in college and they have a lack of curiosity towards anything science based.

[USALiberal]

14. This post has nothing to worry about! Nt

[roamer65]

15. There still will be sub-clinical cases after mass vaccination.

There are with measles and other viruses.

The virus doesn’t care about vaccination status. It’s gonna try regardless.

Good news is the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine has proven 100 percent effective at keeping people out of the ICU’s.

The main goal is to make infection a mild thing, like a mild cold.