Some Oakland, California residents mistakenly alerted to insufficient vaccine dose: report – EzAnime.net

Officials at the California Department of Health were struggling to allay residents’ fears this week after too many people received a letter telling them they may have received too weak a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.

The letters were supposed to go to people who visited the Oakland Coliseum vaccination site, but by mistake the letters were also delivered to people who used the Eastmont Mall site, Bay Area FOX 2 reported.

Either way, there was no cause for alarm regardless of where people visited, health officials told the station.

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Ali Bay, a spokesman for the health department, said the confusion likely occurred because both vaccination sites were being managed by the same agencies, the California Office of Emergency Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The Oakland Coliseum, home of the MLB Oakland A’s, has been used as a vaccination site.

Health officials believe that up to 6,300 people who visited the Colosseum site may have received less vaccine in their injections than was supposed, but the weaker dose was still considered strong enough to defend against the virus, officials told FOX 2.

After those recipients get their second vaccine injection, that will make up for the weaker first injection, they said.

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FOX 2 first learned of the problem with the doses when two paramedics who requested anonymity contacted the station.

The error was attributed to the Coliseum vaccination staff receiving a different type of syringe that was not fully pushing the vaccine into people’s arms, according to FOX 2.

The lower doses were believed to be distributed from 4:30 p.m. on February 28 to 3 p.m. on March 1, until the problem was corrected, FOX 2 reported.

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