Forty-two people who were expecting to receive the COVID-19 vaccine are getting the antibody used to treat infections, the West Virginia National Guard said Thursday.
The Guard said the people involved arrived at a Boone County clinic to get the Moderna vaccine, but accidentally got the Regeneron antibody via Fox News.
According to medical experts from the Joint Interagency Task Force, which coordinates the state’s vaccination effort, the antibody recipients were in no danger.
“The moment we were notified of what happened, we immediately took action to rectify it, and we immediately reviewed and strengthened our protocols to improve our distribution process to prevent it from happening again,” he said. genl.maj. James Hoyer, adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, said in a press release.
The errors, which came to light on Wednesday, occurred in a clinic hosted by the health department in Boone. According to the release, all the people who received the wrong injection were contacted.
President Donald Trump praised Regeneron for helping to cure him of COVID-19 after contracting the virus in November.
The Food and Drug Administration then approved the use of the experimental treatment, which includes monoclonal antibodies or manufactured copies of antibodies created by the human body to fight infections.
“The products being administered are antibodies that fight COVID-19,” Dr. Clay Marsh, the state’s COVID-19 tsar, said in the statement. “While this injection is not harmful, it has been replaced by the vaccine. But this event provides our leadership team with an important opportunity to review and improve the safety and vaccination process for every West Virginia.”
The guard said no other vaccine shipments were affected, and that the task force had reviewed and strengthened all vaccination-related protocols.
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