An Alaska woman recovered from COVID gets the virus a second time after being vaccinated

An Alaska woman revealed how she recovered from Covid to contract the virus again after being vaccinated with a single dose Johnson & Johnson injection.

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

She recovered and received her one-time dose of the vaccine on March 5 before spending a cabin weekend in Lake Louise with family and friends, The Anchorage Daily News reported.

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

However, during her journey, she began to feel unwell, experiencing fatigue, nausea, and chest congestion – and later discovered she had contracted the virus again.

The news came when the FDA and CDC offered a break from the introduction of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the US after six women developed rare blood clots and one died after receiving the injection.

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

In a Facebook post, Akers said it wasn’t until she returned home that she was stricken with a splitting headache, similar to what she had experienced when she had Covid-19 last year, and lost her sense of taste and smell that she thought that she should. get tested as a precaution.

“ I didn’t believe at the time that it was until I got home and thought about my symptoms and realized I remember these headaches, ” she said. “Then I lost my taste and my smell.”

Akers tested positive again and suffered from constant headaches for three days. She says she has now recovered, although her sense of taste and smell has yet to return.

“Just because you’ve had Covid or been fully vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t TEST POSITIVELY,” Akers wrote on Facebook.

The high school administrator told The Anchorage Daily News that she had decided to make her story public to show the importance of getting vaccinated.

“It would be great if it fully protected you,” she said, but that’s not what vaccine should do.

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

She added that her experience has shown the importance of wearing face masks and practicing social detachment.

Akers is one of approximately 177 “ breakthrough ” patients identified in Alaska, health department spokesman Clinton Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News.

These are people who have reported testing positive for Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated.

Vaccine trials showed that the three vaccines approved in the US prevent between 66 and 95 percent of symptomatic infections, but we still don’t know how well the vaccines prevent people from contracting or spreading the coronavirus.

So it’s no surprise that a relatively small number of people would test positive even after they were vaccinated.

Of the 177 patients in Alaska, one person had to be hospitalized and no one has died, Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News. The majority of these individuals were asymptomatic.

In the US and elsewhere, breakthrough cases in vaccines are reported.

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

Last week, Washington state reported 100 breakthrough infections since Feb. 1. Eight people had to be hospitalized and two people over the age of 80 with underlying health problems died.

It is not clear which vaccine they received.

In Michigan, 246 breakthrough patients are said to have contracted the corona virus between January and March. At least eleven were hospitalized and three died.

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

Elsewhere, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez tested positive two months after receiving Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.