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– 91-year-old Victor Smith was in a detox clinic in Ohio when his second coronavirus vaccine was named on January 25th. “When he came back, I talked to him, he was good,” said his daughter, Dawn Smith Theodore. It was vaccination day at the rehabilitation center as well, and a firefighter showed up a while later and said he had a dose for Victor. “The nurse said, ‘Victor Smith?’ “And he said, ‘Yes,’ so they gave him the room number, ‘” his daughter said. But the dose had to go to another Victor at the clinic, on WGCL. “I have two vaccines,” Smith told his daughter. After the second blow, Smith’s blood pressure dropped and he went into shock. “They told me pretty much it wouldn’t work,” Theodore said.
But her father recovered. Smith had been shot first three days earlier; doses should be administered weeks apart. The city of Hamilton said the rehabilitation center and firefighters, who handle vaccinations at the clinic, are investigating, according to the WLWT. No one said what brand of vaccine Smith received. In Australia, two patients, aged between 88 and 94, received up to four times the recommended dose of Pfizer vaccine last month on ABC. They recovered. Experts have attributed the mistake of the vaccine that comes in multidose vials; Healthcare professionals in Australia are accustomed to vaccines in single-dose containers. The doctor who did the shooting did not have the necessary training. (Read more stories about the coronavirus vaccine.)