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LONG ISLAND, NY - New York officials say some locals who already received their COVID-19 shots will have to be vaccinated again due to an error in storage of the potentially life-saving doses.
According to WABC ABC 7, an ABC News affiliate in New York, a number of the COVID-19 vaccine doses administered at New York state s mass vaccination site at Jones Beach State Park exceeded the permitted temperature.
Officials announced Monday that residents who received the improperly stored vaccine on February 15 have been notified and have had a new shot rescheduled.
The vaccine was being transported in insulated coolers to waiting cars on a particularly cold day when a worker noticed the temperature in one cooler dropping close to the lower threshold, WABC reports.
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Eyewitness News spoke with a woman from Nassau County, who did not want to be identified, who said her grandmother, who lives in Queens, got a call back and returned to Jones Beach on Monday to have her first dose repeated.
The woman said she was concerned, but her grandmother was taking it in stride. I don t want her to obviously be under vaccinated, but on the flip side is there any safety issue with her potentially now being over vaccinated because how do you know 100 percent that that dose did not take? the woman said.