Overnight Dash To Give Out Covid Vaccine Shots Due to A Failed Freezer All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire
Updated: January 31, 2021 7:55 am IST
In the end, none of the more than 1,600 soon-to-expire doses were wasted. (Representational)
The last shots were given at about 3:45 AM, out on the street, with literally no time to spare.
All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire early in the morning after a freezer malfunction. Finally, they had only a few dozen shots left and about 15 minutes to get them into people s arms.
Seattle hospitals rushed out COVID-19 vaccines in the middle of the night after a freezer they were being stored in failed, leaving more than 1,300 doses that needed to be