Days after revealing he had tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated against the virus, Christian author and pastor Max Lucado said his bout with the illness is bolstering his trust in the inoculation.
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Lucado first revealed his diagnosis last Sunday.
At the time, the 66-year-old writer said he was “miserable” but nevertheless grateful to be at home recovering, adding the “misery would have been worse with no vaccination.”
He told the San Antonio Express-News he likely contracted the virus after shaking hands following his July 18 sermon at Oak Hills Church, where he serves as a teaching minister. Three days later, the preacher began displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been this sick,” Lucado, who has Type 1 diabetes, told a News-Express reporter, recounting his experience at a nearby urgent care center, where patients in nearby waiting rooms were “coming undone,” he said, with severe COVID-19 symptoms.
A doctor who cared for Lucado told him the only thing that set him apart from the others suffering so severely was the fact that he had been fully vaccinated against the virus.
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“I know it gets political,” Lucado said, [but] this is a case study on the power of the vaccine.”
Before he got sick, the pastor was supposed to be on an “epic golf trip to Ireland” with some of his friends, a vacation he said would have been “a trip of a lifetime.” Nevetheless, Lucado and his wife, Denalyn, have an upcoming trip to Mexico to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
Lucado said he is using his quarantine time to pray for others in need.
“Our good Father can’t catch COVID,” he wrote. “I’ll hang out with Him.”
Lucado’s infection — which he described as feeling like “three cases of the flu,” although he’s had no trouble breathing — comes around the same time Pastor Danny Reeves of First Baptist Church in Corsicana, Texas, said he “was wrong” to not get vaccinated against COVID-19 sooner.
Reeves spent two days in the intensive care unit at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas after his blood oxygen level dropped to dangerous levels following a positive COVID-19 test.
“I’ve been taught a lesson,” he said. “I’m big enough and humble enough to say I was wrong. And if my survival and my story can be a blessing to others, I pray it is.”
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