COVID-19 vaccine in Chile earlier this year. A month later, she was in Minnesota getting vaccinated again.Toni, an American living in Chile, was visiting her parents in Minneapolis in April when she got her first Pfizer shot at a CVS pharmacy.
She traveled back for the second dose in June. She did not disclose being previously vaccinated.“They didn’t ask, and I didn’t tell,” said Toni, 55.
She took that step after reading that China’s Sinovac vaccine had a lower efficacy than the Pfizer Inc shot, developed with German partner BioNTech, and the Moderna Inc shot, both widely available in the United States.
She also consulted with her doctor beforehand. Children hospitalized with COVID-19 hits record number in U.S. amid Delta variant surge .