Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.
Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that the impromptu vaccine clinic took place after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a highway after a vaccination clinic at Illinois Valley High School.
Six of the vaccines were getting close to expiring so the workers decided to offer them to other stranded drivers.
The shots were meant for other people in Grants Pass, but the snow meant those doses wouldn t make it to them before they expired, the health department said.
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Oregon health workers, stuck in snow, give COVID-19 vaccine to other drivers
By Associated PressUpdated January 28, 2021, 10:07 a.m.
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The team of Oregon health care workers who vaccinated other snowbound drivers.Josephine County Public Health/Handout
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) â Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.
Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that the âimpromptu vaccine clinicâ took place after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a highway after a vaccination clinic.
Health Workers Stuck in Snow Give Other Stranded Drivers Vaccines Set to Expire The shots were meant for other people, but “the snow meant those doses wouldn’t make it to them before they expired,” the health department said
Published January 28, 2021 •
Updated on January 29, 2021 at 9:18 am
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Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.
Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that the “impromptu vaccine clinic” took place after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a highway after a vaccination clinic.