Fifty vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine had to be discarded in Wisconsin this past weekend due to ‘human error’.
TMJ4 Milwaukee, a local NBC affiliate station, reported that the incident took place at an attorney Aurora Health Clinic in Grafton, Wis., When an employee took the bottles out of a freezer to take another item remove. The employee then incorrectly did not return the bottles in the freezer.
“We have learned that about 50 scales of Moderna vaccine were accidentally removed from a pharmacy closet overnight,” a Aurora attorney told TMJ4. “While some of the vaccine was administered to team members on December 26 within the approved 12-hour window after refrigeration, most of it unfortunately had to be discarded due to the temperature storage requirements to maintain its viability.”
The spokesman added: “We are clearly disappointed and regret that this happened.”
Although it does not need to be stored at the extreme sub-zero temperature required for Pfizer’s vaccine, the Moderna vaccine should be stored for up to 30 days before 30 days before about 30 ° C or 30 ° C. it must be thrown out.
The Food and Drug Administration noted in the fact sheet on the Modern vaccine that the specific requirements of the vaccine are due to the fact that the medicine does not contain preservatives and that the particles inside are very fragile. Once the vaccine has been thawed, it cannot be frozen again.
Like the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna’s vaccine is administered in two doses that are approximately one month apart. Each vial contains multiple doses.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 100,000 doses of Modner vaccine and 84,825 doses of Pfizer vaccine were allocated to the state. According to the most recent data from the department, 10 358 vaccines have been administered so far.