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.
Health Workers Stuck In Snow Give Vaccine To Other Drivers Stranded On Oregon Highway
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 Tuesday.
CBS Medford, Oregon affiliate KTVL-TV reported that they were stuck near Hayes Hill while en route to Grants Pass after staffing a vaccine clinic at Illinois Valley High School.
Health care staff stranded on snowy highway gives COVID vaccines to motorists
Workers didn t want the doses to expire
and last updated 2021-01-28 13:26:49-05
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. â When a group of health care workers with COVID-19 vaccines on hand became stranded on a snowy Oregon highway, they improvised to make sure the doses didnât go to waste.
Josephine County Public Health says about 20 of its staff and volunteers had just finished a mass vaccination event at a local high school and were on their way to administer the remaining six vaccines in Grants Pass when the snowstorm hit on Highway 199 near Hayes Hill.
Motorists stranded in Oregon snowstorm get coronavirus vaccine in ‘impromptu clinic’
Print article GRANTS PASS Health officials in southern Oregon said staff gave out six doses of the coronavirus vaccine to motorists at an “impromptu vaccine clinic” along a roadside in a snowstorm. Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that about 20 personnel became stranded Tuesday on U.S. Highway 199 near Hayes Hill on their way to Grants Pass after staffing a nearby vaccination event. The vaccines were getting close to expiring so officials decided to offer them to other stranded motorists, officials said.
When Josephine County Public Health staff and volunteers concluded their mass vaccination event at the Illinois Valley.Posted by Josephine County Public Health on Tuesday, January 26, 2021