After a freezer with precious Modern COVID-19 vaccines that needed refrigeration broke into a hospital in Seattle, medical staff scrambled to vaccinate as many people as possible at clinics of the University of Seattle and the University of Washington.
It appears to be one of the wildest explosions of vaccines ever, when medics rushed them to use the vaccine on humans before it expired Thursday night and early Friday morning, the Seattle Times reported.
“I got a call tonight at 9am and heard that a Kaiser freezer had gone down and can we help vaccinate people before the doses expire at 5:30 in the morning?” Jenny Brackett, an assistant administrator at the University of Washington, told the Seattle Times.
Between the UW Medical Center in Northwest and Montlake, there were 800 unexpected doses to administer.
Non-profit healthcare system Swedish tweeted late Thursday night that it had 588 Modern coronavirus vaccine appointments available from 11pm to 2am
The cause of the freezer function at Kaiser Permanente was not immediately clear.
“It was late, it was watching – someone saw it and quickly thought of taking it to someone who could administer it,” said Cassie Sauer, president of the Washington State Hospital Association.
According to Sauer, no dose is unused and 1600 total doses are administered at different sites.