Please see the attached response I received from Pfizer regarding this question.
Rachel Leibu,
MD, MBA, MS, FACOEM
Medical Director Occupational Medicine Services
Atlantic Health System
Clinical Assistant Professor, Sidney Kimmel Medical College
at Thomas Jefferson University
Office 973-829-4277
Cell 973-886-6708
From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> On Behalf Of
Jeremy Biggs via MCOH-EH
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 4:55 PM
To: mcoh-eh@mylist.net
Cc: Jeremy Biggs <jerbiggs@yahoo.com>
Subject: [MCOH-EH] COVID Vaccination Dose #2 in employees who become positive after dose #1
What are your policies for the following:
Employee has first vaccine and then becomes positive for COVID before the second dose. We have decided, based on the CDC site, COVID before or after 1st dose and before
2nd, don't need to interrupt the schedule, reschedule as long as symptoms resolved and at least 10 days from symptom onset or positive test in an asymptomatic employee.
I have talked with other institutions and some are postponing the second dose for 90 days from symptom onset or positive test in an asymptomatic positive. This they have said is to use the vaccine for others.
Anyone else doing anything different?
Jeremy Biggs MD MSPH FACOEM
Associate Professor
PPE “Czar”
University of Utah, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Medical Director Rocky Mountain Specialty Services Clinic
Medical Director of the University Hospital and University Campus Employee Clinics
Medical Director of Occupational Medicine and Health, EHS and University Hospital and Clinics