An Alaska woman recovered by COVID catches the virus a second time AFTER being vaccinated

An Alaska woman has revealed how she recovered from Covid to catch the virus again after being vaccinated with a single-dose shot from Johnson & Johnson.

Kim Akers, a 50-year-old Palmer resident, first contracted the virus in December.

He recovered and received his single dose of vaccine on March 5 before spending a weekend cabin on Lake Louise with family and friends, The Anchorage Daily News reported.

Akers, who has an underlying health condition, thought she was protected after recovering from the virus and waited more than two weeks after receiving the shot.

However, during his trip he began to feel unwell, with fatigue, nausea and chest congestion, and later found that he had caught the virus again.

The news came when the FDA and CDC recommended a pause in the U.S. deployment of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed rare blood clots and one died after receiving the shot.

“I still don’t think anything was going on,” Akers told the newspaper. “I told my family I wanted to go home, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not COVID.’ I said that. ‘

In a post on Facebook, Akers said that only when he returned home and had a headache that crashed, similar to what he had experienced when he had Covid-19 last year, and lost consciousness of the taste and smell he believed he should take as a precautionary test.

“I didn’t believe it at the time until I got home and thought about my symptoms and realized that the headache is what I remember,” he said. “Then I lost my taste and smell.”

Akers tested positive again and suffered a constant headache for three days. He says he has now recovered, although his taste and smell have not yet returned.

“Just because you’ve had Covid or been completely vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t have a POSITIVE TEST,” Akers wrote on Facebook.

The institute administrator told The Anchorage Daily News that she had decided to make her story public to show the importance of getting vaccinated.

“It would be great for you to be completely protected,” he said, but the vaccine should not be made.

“It’s to keep you out of the hospital and prevent death and hopefully lessen the symptoms.”

He added that his experience has brought home the importance of wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

Akers is among about 177 patients identified in Alaska, health department spokesman Clinton Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News.

These are people who have reported being positive on Covid-19 after being completely vaccinated.

Vaccine trials have shown that the three U.S.-approved vaccines prevent 66 to 95 percent of symptomatic infections, but we still don’t know the extent to which vaccines prevent people from catching or spreading coronavirus.

It is therefore not surprising that a relatively small number of people test positive even after vaccination.

Of Alaska’s 177 patients, one person has required hospitalization and no one has died, Bennett told The Anchorage Daily News. Most of these individuals have been asymptomatic.

Vaccine breakthroughs are being reported in the United States and elsewhere.

In late March, a New York woman revealed that she had tested positive for Covid-19 after receiving the Modern vaccine.

Last week, Washington state reported 100 advanced infections since Feb. 1. Eight people required hospitalization and two people over the age of 80 with underlying diseases died.

It is unclear what vaccine they received.

In Michigan, 246 advanced patients were reported to have captured coronavirus between January and March. At least 11 were hospitalized and three died.

Three Hawaii residents also tested positive after receiving a vaccine, it was reported last month. It is unclear what vaccine they received.

Elsewhere, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez tested positive two months after receiving the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia.