Nearly 600 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines thrown out in Douglas County
Transfer error forced officials to discard doses
Cheryl Gerber/AP
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Error forces Kansas hospital to throw out 570 vaccines doses
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNAMarch 12, 2021 GMT
MISSION, Kan. (AP) A Kansas hospital had to throw away 570 doses of a coronavirus vaccine because of a refrigeration mistake, officials say.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital said in a news release that city and county health officials transferred the doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the hospital on Wednesday. The hospital then put them in a freezer, not realizing they were thawed. Confusion arose because most doses are shipped frozen, but the health department had received this batch in a refrigerated state.
The hospital reached out to Johnson & Johnson for guidance and was instructed that the doses would have to be discarded.