COVID vaccine: Ohio man Victor Smith recovers after being accidentally vaccinated twice in one day

HAMILTON, Ohio – Getting two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine is not uncommon, but doctors say you should wait weeks between each injection.

This did not happen with a man in Ohio who is now recovering after receiving consecutive doses of the vaccine.

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Now Victor Smith, 91, is recovering after his body went into shock in response to what appears to be a vaccine overdose.

“They pretty much told me it wasn’t going to make it happen,” said Smith’s daughter Dawn Smith Theodore.

Theodore said it all started after his father received his first dose of the vaccine on January 22.

He was extremely tired afterwards and fell.

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Smith, who has an amputee, went to the Fort Hamilton hospital before being transferred to the Jamestown rehabilitation center a few days later.

While at the rehab facility, Smith was due to get his second shot on February 25 at the Butler County Fairgrounds.

“They transported him for the shot. And when he came back, I spoke to him,” Theodore said. “He was good. And then at 3:45 pm, I guess a town firefighter came in and said they had a chance for Victor, and the nurse said, ‘Victor Smith? “and he said ‘Yes’ so they gave him the room number and sent him to room 202, where my father was.”

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But they had the wrong Victor, according to Theodore.

“My dad said, ‘I got two shots,’” she recalls.

In a joint statement to WLWT, the City of Hamilton and Community First Solutions said in part: “An incident occurred in which a resident of the City of Hamilton inadvertently received two doses of the same COVID-19 vaccine. day. Jamestowne and the City of Hamilton Fire Department began investigations into the incident. ”