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Distracted Nurse Gives Patient 6 COVID Vaccine Doses
By Carolyn Crist

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May 12, 2021 -- A nurse in Italy accidentally administered six doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a patient as a single shot, according to CBS News.

The 23-year-old patient received the vaccination on Sunday morning and was observed at the Noa Hospital in Tuscany for 24 hours. She was given fluids and anti-inflammatory and fever medications and released on Monday. She didnt experience any adverse reactions.

This person at this time will certainly not have side effects, Antonella Vicenti, MD, director of infectious diseases at Noa Hospital, told the news outlet.

Each vial of the Pfizer vaccine contains six doses. Each dose is extracted individually and placed in separate diluted vials. On Sunday, the nurse giving the vaccine injected the full amount from an undiluted vial.

The nurse realized the error and immediately told the patient and attending physician, who began monitoring the woman for adverse reactions, CBS News reported. They alerted local health authorities and the patients family as well.

Pfizer studies have found that people who receive up to five times the normal dosage dont have additional reactions, Vicenti said. In addition, patients in Israel and Germany who have accidentally received six doses havent showed adverse reactions, CBS News reported.

The patient did not have fever and did not have any pain except for pain at the inoculation site, nor any other manifestations, she said. She was a bit frightened, thus we preferred to keep her here until this morning.

The hospital will test the patients blood regularly to monitor her immune response and long-term effects, CBS News reported. The hospital has also launched an investigation to review safety procedures.

This is something that should never happen, Tommaso Bellandi, director of patient security for the northwest Tuscany healthy authority, told the news outlet.

Unfortunately, due to our limits as human beings, as well as organizational limits, these things can happen, he said.


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Sounds like the lady will be fine.

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Can she skip the second shot then? I'd be down

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Covid is going to enter the body and see nothing but jacked antibody cells everywhere.
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Oh no, what are we going to do with all this mRNA besides translated into proteins and then delete it?

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Hopefully the nurse gets fired

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three weeks old

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this means nothing

she can still get covid

sadly

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RebelElite791 posted...

three weeks old

The article clearly says the patient was 23 years old.

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Damn she gonna be our hero against Covid 9000.

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Malcrasternus posted...

Damn she gonna be our hero against Covid 9000.

there's another variant found in vietnam.... it's a combo of the british/india variant. much more contagious and very dangerous.

we're screwed if it manages to spread outside of vietnam.
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If you can get 6 in one go and be fine, any particular reason why are they separating them into two separate shots

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Vaccinated people can still get the disease has always and will always be the dumbest anti-vax argument. Especially for diseases that are very nearly eradicated, like measles. One, only 5% of people vaccinated against measles would contract the disease exposed to it, as opposed to 97% of unvaccinated.

Two, the only reason the unvaccinated people arent getting measles is because so many people are vaccinated that it is no longer readily endemic in the United States. They equate their lack of risk of measles as somehow being independent of vaccines.

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DarkRoast posted...

Vaccinated people can still get the disease has always and will always be the dumbest anti-vax argument.

Even more so when getting the vaccine means that even if you do get the disease, it's not as serious.

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