Officials at a maximum security prison in Iowa provided 77 inmates with doses of the Pvizer coronavirus vaccine, which were several times stronger than recommended, the Des Moines Register reported.
The incident, which took place on Tuesday, took place at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
A detainee’s mother told the Registry that her son received a dose “six times the recommended amount,” according to doctors.
“Affected detainees have been notified and are closely monitored by medical staff. Currently, the only side effects detainees face are those usually associated with the Pfizer vaccine,” a spokesman for the Department of Corrections in the newspaper said. Iowa.
It is unclear how the incident happened. Two nurses who administered the vaccine doses were laid off pending an investigation.
The Pfizer vaccine comes in a six-dose vial, which has led to confusion before. In Australia, two residents of a nursing home received four times the recommended amount. In Germany, too, eight nursing staff received the recommended dose five times, with several reports of flu-like symptoms.
Similar incidents have occurred in Israel.
“In these cases, practitioners forget to dilute and inject the vaccine concentrate as it is,” Amiram Ariel, head of the Israeli Immunology Society, told Australian broadcaster ABC.
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