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Excessive dosing of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine a ‘well-known risk’, as Australia ramps up its vaccine rollout
The potential for giving the wrong dosage of the Pfizer vaccine is a well-known risk authorities should have been prepared for, a vaccination expert says.
Key points:
- Nearly all vaccines used before now in Australia have come in single-dose vials
- One expert said the risk had to be weighed against the urgent need to get jabs into people’s arms
- Similar excessive dosing errors have happened in Israel and Germany
Two elderly residents of a Queensland aged care home were given a higher than recommended dose of the new mRNA vaccine during the first phase of the vaccine rollout, which kicked off on Sunday.
The incident happened on Monday and the two patients, aged 88 and 94, were given up to four times the recommended dose.
They were monitored…
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