Storage error leads to 1,000 vaccine doses being thrown away in Rutherford Co.
Vaccination event still on schedule
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Rutherford County School officials announced a storage error saying 1,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses will have to be trashed.
The school district had the Moderna vaccines for an employee clinic Saturday, which was being held for 320 employees.
On Thursday, the districtâs health services department moved all the vaccines to a freezer. The doses were moved to a refrigerator and the school officials say staff used the supplied digital data logger to monitor the temperature.
Tennessee's top health officials revealed Friday that the state has requested federal law enforcement investigate alleged theft of coronavirus vaccine doses in the state's most populous county.
Rutherford County Schools wasted 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines intended for employees after a storage error.
The school district received 1,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Thursday for a vaccine clinic on Saturday but the district had to dispose of the vaccines after incorrectly storing the vaccines, according to a press release from the district Friday afternoon.
The school district’s health services department initially stored the vaccines in a freezer Thursday, but the doses were then moved to a refrigerator in preparation for the vaccination clinic.
On Friday morning, the digital data logger tool supplied by the Tennessee Department of Health showed the correct temperature but later gave an error code. After checking with the state health department, which has begun directly supplying vaccines to some Tennessee school districts, Rutherford County Schools officials learned the health services department had made an error.
Around 800 Murfreesboro City Schools educators and staff filtered in and out of Salem Elementary Friday for their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with help from the Rutherford County Health Department. I m just glad to be doing my part, said John Pittard Elementary Principal Adam Bryson as he rolled up his sleeve for the shot. This is been a tough year for all of us and it s just exciting to have a light at the end of the tunnel and know this is the next step to getting us back to some normalcy.
K-12 school teachers and child care staff, along with Tennesseans 65 and older, became eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, formally moving into phase 1b, Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey announced. Educators were previously in the second phase of the state s four-phase plan, behind health care workers, long-term care facility residents and staff and the elderly.
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