A nurse prepares for a Pfizer vaccination in Alaska, U.S., March 19, 2021.
In an effort to contain the continued spread of the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19) outbreak, many countries are conducting mass vaccinations with the aim of forming a herd immunity barrier as soon as possible. However, the continuous mutation of the virus poses a serious challenge to the protective effect of the vaccine. Recently, a woman in the U.S. who had been infected with the CCP virus and had recovered from it was re-diagnosed after vaccination, raising concerns.
Kim Akers, a 50-year-old woman from Alaska, recovered from the infection last December after suffering headaches, body aches, and loss of taste and smell.
On March 5 of this year, Eckers received a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which required only a single injection. Two weeks later, she was confident that the vaccine’s protection should have kicked in, so she went on a weekend trip to Lake Louise with her family and friends. During the vacation, however, Echols became unwell, feeling tired, nauseous and with chest tightness, but she did not believe she had contracted the CCP virus again. She decided to go home, but still told her family not to worry and that she believed it was not the CCP virus.
However, Echolls went home with a splitting headache and then lost her sense of taste and smell, the same symptoms she had last year when she was infected with the CCP virus. She was tested for the CCP virus and tested positive.
Fortunately, after three days of symptoms, she recovered, but her senses of taste and smell have not returned.
In a Facebook post, Eckers recounted her experience and reminded everyone not to take it lightly just because they had been infected with the CCP virus or had been vaccinated. In her post, she emphasized that vaccination does not guarantee that one will never again be infected with the CCP virus, but it can help people mitigate their illness and prevent it from developing into a serious illness or death. She urged people to still maintain social distance and insist on wearing masks, cautioning that it is not yet time to return to normal life.
According to the New York Post, there have been 177 “breakthrough cases” in Alaska in which people like Eckles have recovered or been vaccinated, most of whom are asymptomatic, but one has more severe symptoms and required hospitalization. Experts are studying whether these “breakthrough cases” are related to the mutation of the virus.
In fact, there have been recent cases in Idaho, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina and Washington where people have been infected with the CCP virus two weeks after being fully vaccinated.
To date, 246 residents in Michigan have been found to have tested positive for the CCP virus two weeks after being fully vaccinated, 11 of whom have been hospitalized and three have died, all of whom were 65 years of age or older.
In Washington State, as of March 31, more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the CCP virus despite being fully vaccinated, eight of whom have required hospitalization and two have died, all of whom were over the age of 80.
Statistics released by the Houston, Texas, health department also show that 142 people in the city tested positive for the CCP virus two weeks after being fully vaccinated, representing 0.02 percent of the state’s fully vaccinated residents.
Dr. David Persse, Houston’s chief medical officer, said in a media interview that vaccines offer a certain level of protection, but no vaccine is 100 percent effective. That is, vaccination does not provide 100 percent immunity, and it is inevitable that a small number of people who are fully vaccinated will become infected with the Chinese Communist virus again. However, those who are reinfected after vaccination usually have milder symptoms compared to those who are not vaccinated.
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