{"id":225643,"date":"2021-04-13T05:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-man-tests-positive-for-covid-two-weeks-after-jj-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T05:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:12:23","slug":"nyc-man-tests-positive-for-covid-two-weeks-after-jj-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-man-tests-positive-for-covid-two-weeks-after-jj-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC man tests positive for COVID two weeks after J&J vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC man tests positive for COVID two weeks after J&J vaccine<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A Brooklyn man found out on Monday that he\u2019d tested positive for the coronavirus \u2014 more than two weeks after getting the jab.<\/p>\n

Matthew Sambolin, 39, told The Post that though he opted for the one-dose\u00a0Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it was \u201cconvenient,\u201d he now wishes he\u2019d gotten the Pfizer or Moderna shot instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe risk was there, I was willing to take it. Now I\u2019m wishing I made a different decision,\u201d he said in a phone call from the spare bedroom of his Bath Beach home, where he\u2019s currently quarantining.<\/p>\n

Sambolin said he was experiencing minor symptoms, including a light cough and fatigue. <\/p>\n

While a rapid test he took Saturday came back negative, a PCR test, which is more accurate, returned positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, according to documentation he provided.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a shock,\u201d Sambolin said of learning about his positive test on Monday.<\/p>\n

An operations manager for two local radio stations, Sambolin said he had \u201cno ambivalence\u201d about the COVID vaccine and had been looking forward to getting his.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Sambolin was vaccinated in late March with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but later tested positive with COVID-19.<\/figcaption>
Matthew Sambolin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI wanted to help get the herd immunity up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sambolin also said he thought it was important to get vaccinated to help keep safe his young daughter Nora, who is almost two, and for the sake of the employees he manages.<\/p>\n

He got the shot on March 24 at the NYPD Community Center in East New York, according to his vaccine card.<\/p>\n

Sambolin wanted to get the J&J jab because he wanted to be vaccinated when he drove down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that weekend.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday \u2014 the two-week mark since he got his shot, which is when experts say he would be considered fully vaccinated \u2014 Sambolin believes he was exposed to the virus via a co-worker who later tested positive for COVID.<\/p>\n

Throughout the pandemic, Sambolin says he\u2019s taken all the recommended precautions, including mask-wearing and social<\/a>-distancing, and hasn\u2019t been on public transportation in over a year, though he still goes to the office.<\/p>\n

After finding out on Saturday that his colleague had come down with the bug, Sambolin and his wife got tested at their local CityMD. Both her rapid test and PCR were negative.<\/p>\n

Sambolin said he decided to tell his story after seeing other coverage of people who\u2019d gotten the J&J jab and then come down with COVID, including The Post\u2019s stories about a Brooklyn woman who tested positive three weeks after her vaccine and a New Jersey man hospitalized with the virus five weeks after his shot.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Sambolin, pictured here with his wife and toddler daughter, was vaccinated in late March with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but later tested positive with COVID-19.<\/figcaption>
Matthew Sambolin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Sporadic cases of\u00a0post-vaccine horror stories\u00a0have popped up in local news<\/a> around the country. Health experts say that while vaccinated people can still catch the bug, the likelihood of that happ<\/a>ening is far lower than in people who aren\u2019t inoculated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vaccine does not necessarily prevent you from getting COVID. It prevents you from being hospitalized or dying from it,\u201d Dr. Kris Bungay, a Manhattan primary care physician, previously told The Post. \u201cThat is why we all still have to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not common in the clinical trials for patients to be symptomatic after getting vaccinated,\u201d Bungay added.<\/p>\n

Moderna\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Pfizer\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0two-dose vaccines are 94% and 95% effective, respectively, at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections after two doses, according to the CDC. The single-dose J&J vaccine only provides 66% protection.<\/p>\n

Sambolin said he hoped more people would consider that data before getting their shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still think getting vaccinated is still definitely the way to get to herd immunity,\u201d he said, but \u201cI hope that they consider really weighing the different effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sambolin said he was experiencing minor symptoms, including a light cough and fatigue. <\/figcaption>
Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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