It happened in the San Diego area.
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Experts here in the Bay Area say it takes time for the antibodies to develop in your body.
“As a doctor I have no problem putting needles in people, I don’t really like having needles put in me,” says Dr. Amy Herold, the Chief Medical Officer of Napa’s Queen of the Valley Medical Center.
She took the coronavirus vaccine like thousands of others.
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Regarding what happened to the nurse in San Diego, “I suspect they were exposed just before they got the vaccine and they didn’t show any symptoms or just after,” says Dr. Herold.
“It’s a sad coincidence that if someone has already been exposed and vaccinated, the vaccine will not work in a few days. I mean, it will work in a few days, but certainly not in less than a week,” says Dr. Yvonne Maldonado of Stanford.
Doctors tell ABC7 News that the first vaccination shot provides 50 percent immunity, starting only one week with the Pfizer vaccine and two weeks with the Moderna vaccine. The second dose then brings the immunity to at least 90 percent.
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While neither is 100 percent, Dr. Herold says there is optimism in her hospital and she couldn’t help but smile when she got the vaccine.
“Under my mask, I have the biggest grin I finally get,” she says, “because it feels like hope now and for all of us who are taking care of COVID patients and going to the limit right now. Have something to look forward to. and to hope is something very powerful. “
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