A New Jersey man is in hospital with COVID-19 – just five weeks after being vaccinated.
Francisco Cosme, 52, was ecstatic when he made an appointment for the one-time Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javits Center on March 6.
After Cosme was vaccinated, he continued to wear a mask and followed social distance guidelines, but he became “very confused and started doing things that were not normal,” his daughter, Michelle Torres, told The Post.
“April 1 was the very first day he started having symptoms,” said Torres. “He had a cough, fever, chills, everything.”
The 31-year-old drove her father to a clinic where he tested positive for COVID-19 and was ordered to remain in quarantine for 10 days.
Last week his condition worsened and Torres noticed he was having trouble breathing and called 911 while visiting his home in Edison, New Jersey.
After he gave Cosme oxygen, paramedics rushed him to John F. Kennedy Medical Center, where he is in critical condition and is also being treated for pneumonia.
“I’m trying to keep it together, you don’t know what’s going on every day,” said a tearful Torres.
“The doctor said they’ve done everything they can and it’s up to him to fight and to God.”
Torres told The Post that her mother, husband and children tested positive for COVID and are in quarantine until next Sunday.
“We survived without it all year round [vaccine] do all the things we’re supposed to do – social distance, wash hands and mask, ”she explained.
“It’s crazy and we need answers,” Torres concluded.
The Post also reported that a Brooklyn woman who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javitz Center on March 10 was given COVID-19.