Kansas hospital throws away almost 600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine
A vaccination team is now in place to quickly review and refine the process of preventing waste and to prevent errors in the future.
March 15, 2021 10:35 GMT
A hospital in Kansas was left with no choice but to discard almost 600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine due to a process error.
Health officials revealed on Thursday that the Lawrence Memorial Hospital had to throw out 570 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The vaccines came from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health on Wednesday.
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Fox News reported that the vaccines are normally delivered while they are frozen. This allows them to be placed in a freezer at the hospital until they can be distributed. However, health officials revealed that they did not realize they were already thawed. This was the revelation made in a press release by the hospital
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