California Department of Health officials this week tried to allay residents’ fears after too many people received a letter saying they may have received too low a dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
The letters were supposed to go to people who visited the vaccination site Oakland Coliseum, but accidentally the letters were also delivered to people using the Eastmont Mall site, reports FOX 2 of the Bay Area.
Either way, there was no cause for alarm no matter what people visited, health officials told the station.
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Ali Bay, a spokesman for the Department of Health, said the confusion was likely due to both vaccination sites being managed by the same agencies, the California Emergency Services Agency and the federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Oakland Coliseum, home to MLB’s Oakland A’s, was used as a vaccination site.
Health officials estimate that as many as 6,300 people visiting the Coliseum website received less vaccine in their shots than they should, but the weaker dose was still considered strong enough to defend against the virus, officials told FOX 2.
After the recipients received their second vaccine shot, it will compensate for the weaker first shot, they said.
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FOX 2 first learned of the dose problem when two paramedics requesting anonymity contacted the station.
The error is attributed to the vaccination staff of Coliseum who according to FOX 2 get a different type of syringe that does not express the vaccine in the arms of humans.
It is believed that the smaller doses will be distributed from 1:30 to 28 March 1:30 to 16:00 until the problem is corrected, FOX 2 reports.