Californian man tests positive for Covid-19 weeks after receiving second dose of vaccine

Mission Viejo – Monday marked three weeks since a man in Lake Forest received his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, and one day since testing positive for COVID-19.

“Yesterday I received a phone call from the Orange County Health Department,” Gary Michael said. “They told me that, yes, I am positive with the coronavirus, and they went through my symptoms and the precautions of what I should do in regards to quarantine.

Michael was tested for the virus when he went to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo on Saturday with an unrelated health problem.

“You might be surprised by the story of this man, the story of this patient, I’m not, and it’s not the first I’ve heard of,” said Dr Tirso del Junco Jr. , Chief Medical Officer of KPC Health. “I think I’ve heard of six or seven unrelated cases in the past three weeks of individuals who have been vaccinated with different time frames that have tested positive, and I think we’re going to continue to see that more and more.

These cases are why doctors like del Junco have urged people not to cover their faces – whether or not they have been vaccinated – especially in light of new variants of COVID-19 spreading in the community. .

“We will really understand the effectiveness and the validity of these number one vaccines,” said del Junco. “Second, as soon as we started the vaccination program, we started hearing about these mutant strains. We now have three aggressive mutant strains that people keep talking about, and it’s been a long time after we started this vaccination process.