A 9th vaccinated New York Yankees member tested positive for Covid-19 but feels good, manager says

Posted May 16, 2021 · May 16, 2021

In all, shortstop Gleyber Torres, pitching coach Matt Blake, third base coach Phil Nevin, first base coach Reggie Willits and five members of the team's traveling staff have tested positive for Covid-19 this week. All nine had been vaccinated using the Johnson & Johnson shot, making these cases what the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refers to as "breakthrough" infections.

Their mild or nonexistent symptoms showed the benefits of the vaccine, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

"This is the vaccine working," she said. "This means that you didn't get infected, or you didn't get a severe infection, you didn't require hospitalization, you didn't require death, and most likely those people were not transmitting to other people. So that is what we were working on the vaccine doing, we were hoping it would do."