It happened in the San Diego area.
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Experts here in the Bay Area say that it takes time for the antibodies to develop in your body.
“I have no problem putting needles in people as a doctor, I do not like to have needles put in me”, says dr. Amy Herold, Chief Medical Officer at Napa’s Queen of the Valley Medical Center.
She takes the coronavirus vaccine just like thousands of others.
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Regarding what happened to the nurse in San Diego, “my guess is that they were exposed just before they got the vaccination and that they are not yet or only showing symptoms after that,” says Dr. Herold.
“It is sadly coincidental that if someone has already been exposed and vaccinated, the vaccine does not work within a few days. I mean it does work within a few days, but certainly not within a week,” says Dr Yvonne Maldonado of Stanford .
Doctors tell ABC7 News that the first vaccine shot offers 50 percent immunity, not kicking in one week with the Pfizer vaccine and two weeks with the Moderna vaccine. The second dose brings immunity to at least 90 percent.
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While not one hundred percent is, says dr. Herold that there is optimism in her hospital and that she can not help but smile when she gets the vaccine.
“Under my mask, I have the biggest grin that I’ll finally get it,” she says, “because at the moment it feels like hope and for all of us who care for COVID patients and who are currently being stretched to the limit. to look forward to and hope for is a very powerful thing. ‘
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