Queensland nursing home responds after elderly residents given ‘overdose’ of Pfizer vaccine

The nursing home where two elderly residents were administered up to four times the recommended dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine has responded.

St Vincent’s Care Services CEO Lincoln Hopper said the reported error was “very distressing”.

“The incident has been very distressing to us, to our residents and to their families,” Hopper told reporters on Wednesday.

“It’s also extremely concerning. It’s caused us to question whether some of the clinicians given the job of administering…