Healthcare Workers Stuck in Snowy Traffic With Expiring COVID Vaccines Go Car to Car Offering Them to Drivers
Feb 1, 2021
With COVID vaccines in short supply, waiting times are not unusual but not for those stuck in traffic alongside these dedicated healthcare workers who made sure that fresh doses didn’t go to waste.
Josephine County Public Health
During last Tuesday’s snowstorm in Oregon, this inoculation crew found themselves stranded in a traffic jam. Rather than let vaccine doses expire, they hopped out of their vehicles and braved the cold, walking car to car looking for people eager to receive the shots.
More than 1,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Seattle on Thursday after a malfunction in a refrigeration unit shortened the vaccine s shelf life.
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.
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