4 Pfizer vaccines were administered and are hospitalized for observation due to a possible overdose

Hunt clarified that “it has not yet been confirmed (the number of doses) because it’s really, really hard to tell how much was in the syringe, but it could be more than four times (the recommended dose) “.

The doctor who administered the vaccine is under investigation for a potential protocol violation and has been removed from the national Covid-19 vaccination program, which began Monday with the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine to essential workers and workers. residents of retirement homes.

To reassure, government medical director Paul Kelly explained that when experiments were conducted during clinical trials of the Pfizer vaccine at doses up to four times the prescribed amount, “side effect data was not a problem.”

Kelly also recounted that Similar cases of vaccine overdose have occurred in nursing homes in Germany and the UK, where “side effects were minimal, especially in the elderly”.

Australia, which so far has given the green light to Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, has accumulated around 29,900 cases of covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and 909 deaths, most of them from the outbreak in the city of Melbourne , mid 2020.