That’s not what happened to an Ohio man who is now recovering after receiving vaccine doses in the back.
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Today, 91-year-old Victor Smith is recovering after his body went into shock in response to what appears to be an overdose of the vaccine.
“They almost told me he wouldn’t make it,” said Smith’s daughter, Dawn Smith Theodore.
Theodore said it all started after her father received the first dose of the vaccine on Jan. 22.
After that, he was extremely tired and fell.
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Smith, who is amputated, went to Fort Hamilton Hospital before being transferred to the Jamestown Rehab Facility days later.
While at the rehabilitation unit, Smith was scheduled to receive his second shot on Feb. 25 at Butler County Fair.
“They transported him to shoot him. And when he came back, I talked to him,” Theodore said. “It was good. And then at 3:45, I think a firefighter came out of town and said they had a shot for Victor, and the nurse said, ‘Victor Smith?’ -they gave the room number and sent him to room 202, where my father was ”.
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But they had the wrong Victor, according to Theodore.
“My father said I had two vaccines,” she recalled.
In a joint statement to WLWT, Hamilton City and Community First Solutions said in part: “There was an incident in which a Hamilton resident accidentally received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine on the same day. Both Jamestowne and the City of Hamilton Fire Department have begun investigations into the incident. ”