Chile’s unusual vaccination mistake

A scandal erupted in Chile after at least 10 people said on Tuesday that they had been mistakenly vaccinated against COVID 19. They said they were given a second dose from a different laboratory than the first inoculation.

It all took place at the American school in San Bernardo, south of Santiago, where a group of people were inoculated with their second dose and were awaiting an adverse reaction there.

It was then that a medical team informed them that they had indeed been vaccinated with doses from the Sinovac laboratory when they were supposed to receive that from the Pfizer laboratory.

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One of those affected, Jacqueline Muñoz, told 24 Hours that “the response they gave is that they could be wrong, that they weren’t robots and that could happen to anyone, it was a mishandling error. Instead of taking the Pfizer, they took the Sinovac, so all they told us was to be calm and come home. “

For her part, Sandra Moya declared that “they took us into a room where the doctor named Claudia was, the nurse who had vaccinated us, they closed the door and They leave apologizing for giving us a vaccine that was not appropriate. “

The Municipality of San Bernardo confirmed what had happened with a statement, stating that << unfortunately we had an EPRO (programming error) in one of our centers, where a second dose of Sinovac was mistakenly given to 10 people who were supposed to receive a second dose of Pfizer. “

They also added that “the 10 people were kept under observation without presenting any complications and they are followed after their release from vaccination. “

While “the doctors indicate that they will have no consequences and vaccination was indicated with the corresponding second dose in 21 days, for which they will be assigned a special time “.

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– I. Municipality of San Bernardo (@SanBernardocl) March 17, 2021

Source: 24 hours / Twitter