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Victor Smith, 91, was in a rehab clinic in Ohio when his appointment for a second shot of coronavirus vaccine took place on January 25. He was taken to a province and returned, reports Live Science. “When he came back, I talked to him, he was fine,” his daughter, Dawn Smith Theodore, said. It was also the vaccination day in the rehabilitation center, and a firefighter showed up a while later and said he had a dose for Victor. ‘The nurse has’ Victor Smith? and he said, ‘Yes,’ and they gave him the room number, ‘said his daughter. But the dose was supposed to go to another Victor in the clinic, per WGCL. “I got two vaccines,” Smith told his daughter. After the second shot, Smith’s blood pressure dropped, and he was shocked. “They told me he’m not going to get it,” Theodore said.
But her father recovered. Smith had his first shot three days before; the doses are supposed to give weeks apart. The City of Hamilton said the rehabilitation center and the fire department, which handles vaccinations at the clinic, are investigating, according to WLWT. No one said what kind of vaccine Smith received. In Australia, two patients, aged 88 and 94, were given as much as four times the recommended dose of Pfizer vaccine per ABC. They also recovered. Experts attribute the error to the vaccine that comes in multidose vials; Australia’s healthcare workers are accustomed to vaccines in single-dose containers. The doctor who gave the shots did not have the necessary training. (Read more stories about coronavirus vaccination.)