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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: katieHaylor on 28/01/2021 15:30:37

Title: Can you test positive for Coronavirus two days after having the vaccine?
Post by: katieHaylor on 28/01/2021 15:30:37

Michael asks:

Can you test positive for Coronavirus two days after vaccine? Is it a side effect of vaccine?

Title: Re: Can you test positive for Coronavirus two days after having the vaccine?
Post by: Colin2B on 28/01/2021 18:05:52

No, it’s not a side effect of the vaccine. You are likely to have caught the virus before you were vaccinated and before you were showing any symptoms.
Also, remember it takes time for immunity to build up, and that no protection is 100%, so you can still catch the virus after being immunised.

Title: Re: Can you test positive for Coronavirus two days after having the vaccine?
Post by: alancalverd on 28/01/2021 18:35:36

You might however expect (indeed hope!) to test positive for antibodies, so be careful in your choice of test.

Title: Re: Can you test positive for Coronavirus two days after having the vaccine?
Post by: set fair on 29/01/2021 01:45:31

If the PCR test is looking only for spike protein genes, there will be some of it there and it's possible that this would cause a false negative. It wouldn't surprise me if there were such tests, even though a single site test looking for an area of RNA which mutates might not be everybody's choice.