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After a day of giving coronavirus vaccinations, Michael Weber and his team were headed back to Grants Pass, Oregon, to administer their last doses on Tuesday when traffic suddenly came to a halt. Authorities had closed the snow-covered highway because of a car accident, and it would be hours before traffic could resume.
But Weber and his team of 20 staff members and volunteers didn’t have that much time to use the six Moderna doses they had left before the vaccines expired.
Healthcare workers administered the Moderna vaccine to stranded drivers in Oregon.
Credit:Josephine County Public Health
That’s when Weber had an idea: If he couldn’t make it to the clinic on time, he could bring the clinic to six other drivers stranded on the highway.
Oregon health workers stuck in snow give other drivers COVID-19 vaccine
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - 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.
Photo courtesy Josephine County Public Health
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.
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Six of the vaccines were getting close to expiring so the workers decided to offer them to other stranded drivers at Josephine County in Oregon.
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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.
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Six of the vaccines were getting close to expiring so the workers decided to offer them to other stranded drivers at Josephine County in Oregon.
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.