US Representative Stephen Lynch tested positive for COVID-19 – after receiving his second dose of vaccine.
Lynch received his positive test result after a staff member in his Boston office tested positive earlier this week, spokeswoman Molly Rose Tarpey said.
The congressman received his second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and tested negative before attending President Biden’s inauguration last week. Lynch is now self-quarantine.
‘This afternoon, US Representative Stephen F. Lynch received a positive test result for COVID-19 after a staff member in the Congressman’s office in Boston tested positive earlier this week. “Congressman Lynch received the second dose of Pfizer vaccine and then received a negative COVID-19 test before attending President Biden’s inauguration, ‘Tarpey said in a statement issued Friday afternoon.
“While Mr Lynch remains asymptomatic and feels good, he will place self-quarantine and will vote in Congress during the coming week,” she continued.
Lynch is the second member of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to test positive for the coronavirus in as many days.
U.S. Representative Lori Trahan tested positive on Thursday and is also self-quarantine.
“Thank you so much to everyone who dropped by me and my family this past day,” she tweeted in an update Friday. “I isolate myself from my husband and girls who are also negative and in quarantine.”
Lynch received a positive test result after his second dose indicated a vaccine on the unknowns who still had the popular shots, Dr.
‘The vaccine Pfizer and Moderna is not 100% protective, based on the studies that have been done. They are both about 95% effective against symptomatic infections, ”said Hamer.
According to the clinical trial, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is supposed to have approximately 95% against symptomatic infection.
But science is still looking at how well the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines prevent asymptomatic infection – and how well it prevents transmission, Hamer said.
“Is it a vaccine failure, or is the vaccine not asymptomatically infected?” Hammer, who did not deal directly with Lynch or talk about it, thinks. “Is he protected from symptomatic infection, which will be good for him because it can reduce the risk of hospitalizations?”
The exact timeline of Lynch’s dose vaccination was not immediately clear. The congressman visited the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center last Friday when nearly 2,000 doses of Moderna vaccine were wasted after a contractor accidentally unloaded a freezer during cleaning. Lynch did not return a call from a Herald reporter Friday afternoon.