By: Denise Grady writing for The New York Times
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the name of an institution. It is the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, not Southwestern Medical Center.
More than two months after he was fully vaccinated against Covid, a doctor in New York woke up with a headache and a dull, heavy feeling of fatigue. A fever and chills soon followed, and his senses of taste and smell began to fade.
This, he thought, could not be happening. But it was: He tested positive for the coronavirus.
“It was a huge shock,” he said. He knew that no vaccine was perfect and that the Pfizer-BioNTech shots he received had been found 95 percent effective in a large clinical trial. “But somehow in my mind, it was 100 percent,” he said.
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