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A Kroger clinic in Virginia mistakenly injected customers with empty syringes on Monday rather than giving them the actual COVID-19 vaccine.
Less than ten customers who were to receive the vaccine at The Little Clinic, one of the company’s boarding clinics in Chesterfield County, were affected by the error, a Kroger spokesman confirmed to FOX Business.
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“The TLC location in Midlothian, Va., Injected a small number of patients with empty VanishPoint syringes instead of the COVID-19 vaccine,” the spokesman said.
An employee pushes grocery carts outside a Kroger Co. grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky on June 14, 2017. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Initially, the company thought the customers were being injected with salt rather than the vaccine, calling it an ‘honest mistake’, WTVR reported. But it turned out that the syringes were not in it at all.
The professional who administered the empty shots, according to the outlet, thought that all the syringes were properly filled with the vaccine.
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However, customers were immediately notified of the crash and have since received a proper COVID-19 shot, according to Kroger.
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The clinic is investigating the matter to prevent a similar situation from recurring in the future, ‘the spokesman said.
The Virginia Department of Health is also ‘aware of this incident’.
At the end of December, Kroger – one of the selected retail pharmacies for President Biden’s Federal Retail Pharmacy Partnership – announced that it would deliver the COVID-19 vaccine nationwide in its 2,200 pharmacies and 220 clinics.
Since then, the company has announced that it can deliver 1 million doses per week through pharmacies and in-store clinics, as well as off-site events.