Adventist Health's Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Northern California encountered a problem with vaccine storage earlier this week, which led to a rush to give out 830 doses. On Monday around 11:30 a.m., Parker and Howe said they were notified that one of the facility's freezers broke, and hundreds of doses of the Moderna vaccine had been sitting at room temperature since 2 a.m.
The local health department's recommendation was to get them in as many people's arms as possible before they expired around 2 p.m., Howe said. The hospital gave 200 vaccines to the public health department, put in calls to localand set up a clinic next to one of the largest local primary care providers, where staff had yet to be vaccinated. There were four pop-up clinics in total.
A line forms at one of the COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinics set up by Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Mendocino County, California, on Jan. 4. Hundreds of members of the general public received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine after a freezer at the hospital broke and 830 doses almost expired.Parker estimated that more than 60% of the doses ended up going to members of the general public.
"It was kind of a joyous atmosphere," she told TODAY."People were really happy, really polite. There was no, 'I should get the vaccine and you shouldn't.'" She said she's expecting a follow-up call from the hospital to schedule her second dose.Meanwhile, in Middletown, Connecticut, last week, 15 non-health care workers, including the mayor, were vaccinated to avoid throwing doses away, the city's acting health director, Kevin Elak, told TODAY.
"We didn't really expect that if there were people who called in sick or no shows, that we would have some vaccine left," he said."Myself and the emergency management director ... said, 'OK we have these doses left over, the clock is running now. ... We don't want to discard these.'"
This is so inspirational, if you live under a rock.
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