Pfizer vaccine as treatment: Covid trapped me at home for more than seven months
Source: BBC
Covid trapped me at home for more than seven months
By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent
21 March 2022
A vaccine has been used to free a man who was trapped at home by a Covid infection that lasted for more than seven months.
It is the first time that a vaccine has been used to "treat" Covid rather than "prevent" it.
Ian Lester, 37, has a weakened immune system that was unable to defeat the virus on its own.
He says he became a prisoner in his home in Caerphilly, Wales, as he isolated for months on end.
Ian was born with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, which makes it harder for him to fight off infections. Even a common cold can linger.
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Ian Lester kept testing positive and was unable to leave his home