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When Covid-19 vaccines are about to expire, health care workers must scramble to make sure they are used CNN 1/30/2021 By Travis Caldwell, CNN © David Ryder/Getty Images SEATTLE, WA - JANUARY 29: Healthcare workers distribute vaccines late into the night at a last-minute COVID-19 vaccine event at Seattle University after a freezer failure at a nearby hospital on January 29, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. The impromptu overnight event was one of three in the city, organized late at night at two University of Washington vaccine clinics and one Swedish Health Services vaccine ...

Extra Covid-19 Shots Pose Quandary for Vaccination Sites © Elise Amendola/Associated Press David MacMillan lucked into a dose of Moderna Inc.’s Covid vaccine late on New Year’s Day. While grocery shopping at Giant Food in Washington, D.C., the 31-year-old paralegal passed by the in-store pharmacist who was scrambling to find takers for two doses after a pair of health-care workers missed their appointments. The store was scheduled to close in 10 minutes and the thawed doses would have to be thrown out. Two of the store’s associates and another customer had already declined the shots. ...

California hospital distributes 850 vaccines in 2.5 hours when refrigerator fails [SFGate, San Francisco] Jan. 5—A Northern California hospital has shown it’s possible to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of people fast. Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center learned Monday morning the refrigerator holding Mendocino County’s most recent distribution of 850 Moderna vaccines had failed. Racing to beat the clock before the vaccines spoiled, they successfully administered the entire supply in 2.5 hours in collaboration with the county’s health department and skilled nursing fac...

"I am elated. That is not an understatement." Leslie received her first vaccination, Monday, and has the card to prove it. It happened weeks, maybe even months ahead of schedule, in a victory snatched from what might have been a disaster. "It is astounding and heroic." Early Monday morning, a freezer storing vaccine failed inside Adventist Health. By the time staff learned of it, those vials had a little more than two hours before expiration. Imagine the consequences of such a loss. "Our main focus was making sure that no vaccine went to waste," said Judson Howe, who runs Adventist Health in ...