Giants middle linebacker Blake Martinez was a breakthrough COVID-19 case. He caught the virus despite being fully vaccinated, which sidelined him from training camp … until his first practice on Tuesday. “Yeah, I’m fully vaccinated,” Martinez said. “[It was] just like, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ … Every person I hung around was fully vaccinated, things like that, and it just happened.” Martinez, 27, experienced symptoms and said “it was definitely scary,” especially because he has a young daughter. But he said the situation “calmed back down” after a “rapid fire” round of contact tracing and testing revealed that everyone around him was negative. Giants chief infection control officer Ronnie Barnes told the Daily News at the start of training camp that he’s been honest with players and told them that breakthrough cases can happen. “But,” he assured, “we do know … that they won’t become severely ill. They likely will not have to be hospitalized, and the symptoms will be mild. I believe that. I’m a scientist.” The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says a small percentage of people who are fully vaccinated will still get COVID-19, but “fully vaccinated people are much less likely to be hospitalized…
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Giants' Blake Martinez back at practice after breakthrough COVID-19 positive
