King medical centre accidentally gives people 6 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in one shot

People receiving their COVID-19 vaccine at a medical clinic in King Township earlier this month had been by accident given the equal of six doses in a single shot resulting from an “administration error”.

Patrick Casey, the area’s Director of Company Communications, has confirmed that people obtained undiluted doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on the Schomberg Medical Centre.

Earlier than being administered, a reality sheet exhibits that every vial have to be thawed and injected with nonpyrogenic distilled water after including 1.8 mL of 0.9 per cent sodium chloride. Every vial comprises six 0.3 mL doses.

The area’s public well being division, which didn't function the clinic, is following up with the medical centre after being notified of the error on Jan. 8.

“We all know the sort of incident may cause nervousness for many individuals; relaxation assured COVID-19 vaccines are protected and administration errors are extraordinarily uncommon,” mentioned Casey.

This isn't the primary time errors have been made at vaccine clinics within the area.

Six folks had been mistakenly injected with saline as a substitute of the Pfizer vaccine at a Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital clinic in April of final yr.

An audit course of performed by Mackenzie Well being recognized the error.

Whereas receiving a saline injection doesn't trigger any hurt, Mackenzie Well being mentioned the incident ought to by no means have occurred and carried out further safeguards to forestall it from occurring once more.