Seattle hospital rushes to vaccinate hundreds after freezer breaks
- 3 years ago
After a freezer holding precious Moderna COVID-19 vaccines requiring refrigeration broke at a Seattle hospital, medical personnel scrambled to vaccinate as many people as possible at Seattle University and University of Washington clinics.
It turned out to be one of the wildest vaccine rollouts ever as medics rushed to use up the vaccine on people before it expired Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Between University of Washington Medical Center’s Northwest and Montlake locations, they had 800 unexpected doses to administer.
Non-profit health system Swedish tweeted late Thursday night that it had 588 Moderna coronavirus vaccine appointments available from 11 pm til 2 am.
The cause of the freezer malfunction at Kaiser Permanente was not immediately clear.
It turned out to be one of the wildest vaccine rollouts ever as medics rushed to use up the vaccine on people before it expired Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Between University of Washington Medical Center’s Northwest and Montlake locations, they had 800 unexpected doses to administer.
Non-profit health system Swedish tweeted late Thursday night that it had 588 Moderna coronavirus vaccine appointments available from 11 pm til 2 am.
The cause of the freezer malfunction at Kaiser Permanente was not immediately clear.