165 doses of COVID-19 vaccine thrown out because of power outage at Colorado medical center By Caitlin O Kane Biden unveils COVID-19 response plan
High winds caused a power outage in Colorado overnight on Thursday, affecting a supply of COVID-19 vaccines, CBS Denver reports. The outage affected a refrigerator at Kaiser Permanente Lakewood Medical Office, which temporarily stopped working.
Since the Moderna coronavirus vaccine is supposed to be kept at a cold temperature, 165 doses inside the broken fridge had to be thrown out.
However, Kaiser Permanente staff administered as many doses as they could, quickly vaccinating staff, physicians and members of the medical center, CBS Denver reports. They were able to use 135 of the doses kept in the fridge.
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FILE - This May 4, 2020, file photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Pfizer and BioNTech say they ve won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the worldâs first coronavirus shot thatâs backed by rigorous science and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)
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