US health workers vaccinated stranded drivers after they got stuck in a snowstorm Jan 28, 2021, 11:51 AM
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Health care workers in Oregon vaccinated stranded drivers after getting stuck in a snowstorm.
The Josephine County Public Health Department said they had six vials that were close to expiring.
While they were intended for other recipients, the workers didn t want them to go to waste.
After getting stuck in a snowstorm health workers in Oregon vaccinated stranded drivers before their remaining doses expired.
The Josephine County Public Health Department announced in a Facebook post that 20 of their staff and workers got stuck in a snowstorm after a mass vaccination event at a local high school and had six doses of the vaccine left.
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When a group of health workers in Oregon was stuck on a highway during a snowstorm, they had to think fast to ensure the remaining COVID-19 vaccine doses they had on hand were administered before they expired leading them to vaccinate the other stranded drivers around them.
On Wednesday, health workers with the Josephine County Public Health Department in Grants Pass, Ore., were attempting to return from a mass vaccination clinic they held at the Illinois Valley High School, about 45 minutes away, when a massive snowstorm stranded them on Highway 199 near Hayes Hill.