Two months after receiving vaccine, Illinois mom tests positive for COVID-19

As more vaccinations take place, we're starting to hear stories about people getting COVID-19 even after their shot. It happened to one mom from Illinois, nearly two months after she was fully vaccinated.
Posted 3/22/2021, 7:45:08 PM Updated 3/22/2021, 7:47:05 PM

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Silver is a busy mom and sales manager for a

medical device company and says she jumped at the chance

to get vaccinated

I mean from what I read it was like 95%

efficacy

So I thought I was good

She received her second fighter shot in mid January

Are you still wearing masks and social distancing and all

that Absolutely so definitely wearing masks

I was social distancing

I was still being really careful

But then she says her two daughters came down with

Covid in late February and soon after she got sick

having been fully vaccinated for six weeks and then to

get a positive covid test I was shocked

I read that if someone vaccinated gets covid it's usually

very mild symptoms

But for two days my symptoms were not mild at

all

I was in bed very ill

According to the CDC the vaccine will help you from

getting seriously ill

Even if you do get covid we shouldn't be surprised

about you know some people still getting infected if they

especially if they have high risk exposures like a household

exposure

But what we shouldn't expect our severe infections because we

know the vaccines were highly protective against preventing hospitalizations

Meanwhile Silver says she's back to feeling good

She says she still has questions about what happened and

she wants to spread awareness

Do you still think it's important that people go out

and get vaccinated I 100% do

I could only imagine not having the vaccine um and

getting covid and how much worse it would be

I do feel like it protected me against hospitalization and

and God forbid death

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