[QUOTE=MDLNB;2017680]Walgreens mistakenly injected parents and two kids age 4 and 5 with the Covid vaccine instead of the flu shot and now they are being treated for tachycardia and elevated blood pressure.
""They will probably do OK," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. "The difference is they got a three times higher dose of a vaccine than is being tested in clinical trials."
The children have reportedly been suffering other side effects for over a week after receiving their shots.
As a retired nurse, I couldn’t imagine this ever happening as the usual practice is drawing up the medicine right before injection. Having just received our flu shots, I noticed they were already drawn up and in a ziplock with our names on them. This practice frees up the pharmacist to go back to filling other prescriptions but opens the door to errors as described here.
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