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Aged care residents were given a higher dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. What’s the danger? – ABC News

Two aged care residents have been given a “higher than recommended dose” of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. But is there any danger in getting a higher dose? What…

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The case of two aged care residents mistakenly being given four times the recommended dosage of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the first week of Australia’s rollout is not without precedent, but nor is it a cause for panic.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the pair an 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were being monitored and were “showing no signs at all of an adverse reaction”.
In Germany’s Pfizer vaccine rollout, eight aged care workers received up to five times the recommended dose…

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