[Leica] All shot up

[Brian Reid]

We had been isolated for many weeks, not leaving the house nor having 
any visitors to the house. Grocery deliveries were left on the front 
porch; I never saw any of the delivery people.

We arranged to get the first dose of vaccine at a pharmacy on February 
4. That was the first time out of the house for either of us during 
2021. We drove to the pharmacy, filled out the paperwork, received our 
shots of Moderna, and waited the required half hour afterwards. We 
walked out of the pharmacy and drove home. By the morning of February 11 
we realized that the very unpleasant symptoms we were experiencing were 
not side effects but were some disease. On February 15 I arranged a 
drive-through swab test, and it was positive. My wife got her test the 
next day, also positive.

We were very careful in the pharmacy, but obviously not careful enough. 
My current belief is that the pens the pharmacist handed us to sign the 
forms were contaminated, and that somehow during the 30-second interval 
between handling the pen and sanitizing our hands, we both managed to 
snag some virus on some part of our bodies.

There was no possibility of us having been exposed anywhere else, 
because we had had no other contact with people or with items recently 
handled by other people. And it hit us both at the same time. The county 
contact tracer said that she has seen a lot of this phenomenon, and 
commented "vaccination centers are becoming superspreader centers".

We did leave the house again on February 17 to receive the antibody 
infusions, but since at that time we were known to be positive, the 
medical staff took tremendous precautions escorting us from the car to 
the infusion rooms and then back to the car afterwards.


On 2021-02-26 8:07 am, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Best wishes to both of you. I’ve since read that you were both treated
> with the monoclonal antibody drug, fortunately, and are recovering.
> 
> As a physician, and co-moderator of the Facebook group COVID-19 for
> Physicians, I’m curious. Could you elaborate on what you mean by
> “during the administration” of your vaccines? What was the timeline,
> and do you have any inkling of how you two became exposed
> simultaneously?
> 
> Of course, I understand if you don’t want to share any further 
> information.
> 
> —howard