A doctor has incorrectly gave two elderly people in a Queensland aged care home a “higher than the recommended dose” of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://ab.co/3aO7xxJ
An 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were given the incorrect doses yesterday.
When asked how much of the dose was administered Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said it had been reported that four times the recommended dose had been given but it was still under investigation.
“It hasn’t been confirmed, because it’s actually really hard to be able to tell what was in the needle, but it couldn’t have been more than [four times],” Mr Hunt said.
Mr Hunt said both patients, from the Holy Spirit facility in Carseldine, also known as St Vincent’s Care Services, were being monitored and neither had shown any signs of an adverse reaction to the doses.
The doctor who administered the doses has been stood down from the vaccine program.
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