Vaccine Q&A: Can you stop COVID testing after you get vaccine?
Sun Sentinel 1/18/2021 Lois K. Solomon, South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Q. “My girlfriend works at Memorial Regional Hospital and received the two prescribed doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer from her hospital. The process is voluntary. Only about half the staff apparently received the vaccine while others declined. This week, a nurse and three patients tested positive for COVID-19. All of the staff on the floor, included those who received the two rounds of the vaccine, had to be tested for COVID. My question is: Why would immunized staff have to be tested every time there is an outbreak? Does the vaccine not work as it is supposed to? Is it a waste of my time to get the vaccine if I can still catch and spread COVID?”