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Surgical nurse Matthew W. had been vaccinated with the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine before Christmas. Days later he tested positive for Corona.
The 45-year-old Californian had already received the first dose of the corona vaccine on December 18. “I got my corona injection. Sitting with some others for 15 minutes afterward, while the health workers were wondering how we were doing, reminded me of an opium den. I will contact me if I get a third arm,” he joked. shortly after on Instagram.
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But just a few days later he didn’t feel like laughing anymore. During his service in a wreath department on Christmas Eve, Matthew W. suddenly began to feel ill. First he had chills, then muscle pain and a feeling of exhaustion. On December 26, he finally went to a self-service test station himself. The corona test brought the surprise: he was sick with Covid-19 despite the vaccination.
Infected after vaccination?
What sounds strange to lay people at first is not a contradiction in terms to experts. “This is not at all unexpected. A look at the numbers shows that exactly this can happen to exposed occupational groups,” infectologist Christian Ramers of the Family Health Center in San Diego explains to ABC 10 News. You think it is plausible that Matthew W. contracted the virus before vaccination.
Even if the nurse only got infected after Jauckerl, this is still in line with previous experience with the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine. “We know from test studies that it takes between 10 and 14 days before the body begins to accumulate protection as a result of the vaccine,” Ramers continued. He himself had heard of several cases of overlapping infections.
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“The first dose should provide about 50 percent protection, but the second dose is necessary to achieve about 95 percent protection,” the doctor said. Biontech and Pfizer recommend the second vaccine 21 days after the first. After about another week, according to the package insert, maximum protection should be achieved.
