People who test positive for covid-19 should ask their health care providers about receiving monoclonal antibody treatment as soon as they are diagnosed, UPMC doctors said Wednesday. “Earlier is better. It is important for high-risk patients,” said Dr. Meredith Chuk, allocation, distribution and administration lead for the federal department of
State officials realized last weekend that an unknown number of second doses of Moderna vaccine were administered as first doses, turning an already tumultuous vaccine rollout even further on its head.
Barry Ciccocioppo, COVID-19 press secretary for the Department of Health, said Thursday that communication from the department needs to be clearer regarding which vaccines are first doses and which are second doses, and said that pharmacies that misadministered doses shouldn t bear all the blame. We re not saying necessarily that it was the pharmacies who made a mistake, Ciccocioppo said. We re not trying to place blame on anyone.
Ciccocioppo said that the problem became evident when there was a much higher amount of second doses being requested from providers than what would be allocated by the federal government. The misadministration of doses has been happening over the past few weeks, he said