SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Health experts are weighing in after a local nurse tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
In a Facebook message posted on December 18, Matthew W., an ER nurse at at two different local hospitals, talked about receiving the Pfizer vaccine that day.
He told ABC 10News his arm was sore for a day but he suffered no other side effects.
Six days later on Christmas Eve — Matthew, 45, became sick.
He got the chills and later came down with muscle aches and fatigue.
The day after Christmas, he went to a drive-up hospital testing site and tested positive for COVID-19.
