diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Http/Internal/Transports/ServerSentEventsTransport.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Http/Internal/Transports/ServerSentEventsTransport.cs
index a2007c6dfc..614265305a 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Http/Internal/Transports/ServerSentEventsTransport.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Http/Internal/Transports/ServerSentEventsTransport.cs
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Internal.Transports
 
             try
             {
-                var ms = new MemoryStream();
                 while (await _application.WaitToReadAsync(token))
                 {
+                    var ms = new MemoryStream();
                     while (_application.TryRead(out var buffer))
                     {
                         _logger.SSEWritingMessage(_connectionId, buffer.Length);
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Internal.Transports
                             throw new InvalidOperationException("Ran out of space to format messages!");
                         }
                     }
-                }
 
-                ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
-                await ms.CopyToAsync(context.Response.Body);
+                    ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
+                    await ms.CopyToAsync(context.Response.Body);
+                }
 
                 await _application.Completion;
             }
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Tests/ServerSentEventsTests.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Tests/ServerSentEventsTests.cs
index 1d090f5c3f..fbdc4137b8 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Tests/ServerSentEventsTests.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Tests/ServerSentEventsTests.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using System.Threading.Tasks.Channels;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Tests.Common;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Internal.Transports;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using Xunit;
@@ -46,6 +47,30 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Sockets.Tests
             Assert.True(feature.ResponseBufferingDisabled);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task SSEWritesMessages()
+        {
+            var channel = Channel.CreateUnbounded<byte[]>(new ChannelOptimizations
+            {
+                AllowSynchronousContinuations = true
+            });
+
+            var context = new DefaultHttpContext();
+            var ms = new MemoryStream();
+            context.Response.Body = ms;
+            var sse = new ServerSentEventsTransport(channel, connectionId: string.Empty, loggerFactory: new LoggerFactory());
+
+            var task = sse.ProcessRequestAsync(context, context.RequestAborted);
+
+            await channel.Out.WriteAsync(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Hello"));
+
+            Assert.Equal(":\r\ndata: Hello\r\n\r\n", Encoding.ASCII.GetString(ms.ToArray()));
+
+            channel.Out.TryComplete();
+
+            await task.OrTimeout();
+        }
+
         [Theory]
         [InlineData("Hello World", ":\r\ndata: Hello World\r\n\r\n")]
         [InlineData("Hello\nWorld", ":\r\ndata: Hello\r\ndata: World\r\n\r\n")]