Two residents in Brisbane aged care facility given four times the amount of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine

Two elderly people in a Queensland aged care home have been given four times the amount of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed.

An 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were given the doses yesterday.  

Mr Hunt said both patients, from the Holy Spirit facility in Carseldine, 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. 

“I think it’s very important that we’re up front,” Mr Hunt said.

“The safeguards that were put in place immediately kicked into action and a nurse on the scene identified the fact…