Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Cancels Show After Testing Positive for COVID, Says He Feels 'Pretty Good'

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias.Photo: Getty Images

ComedianGabriel Iglesiasannounced Thursday that he has to cancel his upcoming standup show after he tested positive forCOVID-19.

“I’ve been vaccinated and I give credit to that for getting me through this as quickly as it did,” Iglesias added.

Gabriel Iglesias inLast Comic Standing.Mitchel Haaseth/NBCU/Getty

The comedian was due to finish out his 73-performance tour with a stop in San Antonio, Texas, but had to cancel so he can quarantine for 14 days.

The Netflix star, popularly known as “Fluffy,” said he’s experienced chills, body aches and loss of taste and smell, but said the symptoms were not “debilitating.”

“Not the way I wanted to spend my birthday but at least I’m alive and I have cake,” he concluded the announcement, adding, “I can’t taste it or smell it, but I have it.”

Those who purchased tickets for the San Antonio show will be issued an automated refund, the Tobin Center venue said in anannouncement.

Although Iglesias contracted COVID-19 after being vaccinated, experts say there is a slim chance of vaccinated people becoming infected compared to those who have not received the shots.

Though developing COVID-19 after getting fully vaccinated is rare, it is possible and “expected,“the Centers for Disease Control say, as the vaccines are not 100 percent effective against the virus.

Those cases —called breakthrough infections— are typically asymptomatic, and fully vaccinated people aremuch better protected against severe illness from COVID-19that could lead to hospitalization or death. Only a tiny fraction of fully vaccinated people, around 0.00003 percent, have been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the CDC.

The AP reported that only about .8 percent of deaths related to the virus in May occurred in fully vaccinated people, or about 150 of 18,000 total.

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