Our investigation confirmed that clear instructions were provided for those charged with administering the vaccine, and that the administration was done in teams of fully licensed registered nurses in order to prevent this exact type of event from occurring, Department of Corrections spokesman Cord Overton wrote in an email to the Des Moines Register on Monday evening.
The incident happened last Tuesday at the maximum security prison at Fort Madison.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union representing prison employees, contends the mishap happened because nurses were not properly trained on how to switch from using the Moderna version of the vaccine to using the Pfizer version.
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Montgomery: State lawmakers have inched closer to approving a ban on so-called vaccine passports that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access services from a business or state agency. The House Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the bill to House of Representatives for a vote. It has already cleared the Senate. The bill contains a number of exceptions. Surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, hospitals and other health care providers are exempted. Universities could still require students to receive a vaccine; however, there would be exceptions for vaccines approved for “emergency use” by the FDA, as is the case with all three COVID-19 vaccines given in the United States thus far. The idea of vaccine passports is to have a document that shows a person has been inoculated against COVID-19. Federal officials say there are no plans to make them broadly mandatory, but some Republican governors have issued orders b
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77 Iowa Prisoners Given Overdoses of COVID-19 Vaccine - Officials | 23 April 2021 | Officials in Iowa said that 77 prisoners received overdoses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, triggering an internal investigation into the matter. They were given the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the virus, authorities with the state s Department of Corrections said. Cord Overton, a spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Corrections, said in a statement that inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary were given doses of the vaccine Tuesday that exceeded the recommended dosage. The mother of one of the inmates who were given the dose, Kimberly Koehlhoeffer, told the Des Moines Register that doctors told her son that he and others received