COVID recovery woman from Alaska catches virus for a second time after being vaccinated

A woman in Alaska has revealed how she recovered from Covid to catch the virus again after being vaccinated with a one-dose shot from Johnson & Johnson.

Kim Akers, a 50-year-old Palmer resident, first contracted the virus in December.

She recovered and received her proceeds from the vaccine on March 5 before spending a cabin weekend at Lake Louise with family and friends, reports The Anchorage Daily News.

Akers, who has an underlying health condition, thought she was protected after recovering from the virus and waited more than two weeks after she was shot.

During her journey, however, she began to feel unwell and experienced fatigue, nausea and congestion of the breast – and later found that she had contracted the virus again.

The news comes when the FDA and CDC recommended a halt in the U.S. vaccination of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women got rare blood clots and one died after receiving the shot.

“I still did not believe anything was wrong,” Akers told the newspaper. “I told my family I wanted to go home, ‘Don’t worry – it’s not GENDER. “I said it.”

In a Facebook post, Akers said it was only when she returned home and was struck with a throbbing headache, similar to what she experienced when she had Covid-19 last year, that she lost her taste and smell. has that she thought she should be tested as a precaution.

“I did not believe at that moment that it was only when I came home and thought about my symptoms and realized that I remember having a headache,” she said. “Then I lost my taste and my smell.”

Akers tested positive again and developed persistent headaches for three days. She says she has recovered now, but her sense of taste and smell has yet to return.

“Just because you had Covid or were fully vaccinated does not mean you can not test positive,” Akers wrote on Facebook.

The high school administrator told The Anchorage Daily News that she has decided to make her story public to show how important it is to be vaccinated.

“It would be great if it completely protected you,” she said, but that’s not what vaccine is supposed to do.

“It’s to keep you out of the hospital and prevent death and hopefully reduce your symptoms.”

She added that her experience has highlighted the importance of wearing face masks and social distance.

Fields are among about 177 patients identified in Alaska, Department of Health spokeswoman Clinton Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News.

These are people who reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.

Vaccination studies have shown that the three vaccines approved in the United States prevent between 66 and 95 percent of the symptomatic infections, but we still do not know how well the vaccines prevent humans from catching or spreading the coronavirus.

It is therefore not surprising that a relatively small number of people will test positive even after being vaccinated.

Of the 177 Alaska patients, one person needed hospitalization and no one was killed, Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News. The majority of the individuals were asymptomatic.

Cases of vaccine breakthrough are reported in the US and elsewhere.

In late March, a New York woman revealed that she tested positive for Covid-19 after receiving the Moderna vaccine.

Last week, Washington state reported 100 breakthrough infections since Feb. 1. Eight people needed hospitalization and two people over the age of 80 with underlying health conditions died.

It is not clear what vaccine they received.

In Michigan, it was reported that 246 breakthrough patients contracted coronavirus between January and March. At least 11 were hospitalized and three died.

Three Hawaii residents also tested positive after receiving a vaccine, it was reported last month. It is not clear what vaccine they received.

Elsewhere, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez tested positive for two months after receiving the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.