A Northern California clinic administered the wrong dose of pediatric COVID-19 vaccine to 14 children over the weekend.
The Sutter Health health care services network said in a statement that 14 of the vaccines administered at its Antioch pediatric clinic had “the wrong amount” of diluent, which is used to lower the concentration of the vaccine, the television network reported. KGO-TV. The statement did not specify whether the doses were excessive or insufficient.
“As soon as we found out about this, we reached out to the parents,” Dr. Jimmy Chu, chair of the COVID-19 task force at Sutter Health, said in the document. “We review our processes immediately to make sure this does not happen again.”
Denise Iserloth told the television station that the clinic notified her about 10 hours after her children, ages 8 and 11, received 20 micrograms of the vaccine instead of the recommended 10. Both children stayed home Monday with severe stomach pains, he said.
“We assumed there were more measures to prevent this from happening, but obviously there weren’t in this place,” said her husband, Shawn Iserloth.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), patients who receive the wrong dose of the vaccine may experience more arm pain, fatigue, headache, or fever.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco, told KGO-TV that higher doses of the vaccine were administered to children during clinical trials and did not show any negative effects.
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