Health workers stuck in snow administer coronavirus vaccine to stranded drivers

Josephine County public health workers were returning from an Illinois Valley High School mass vaccination clinic in Cave Junction when around 20 members of the group were stranded in a snowstorm in Hayes Hill, A indicated the agency.

To prevent those doses from going unused before they expired, workers went from car to car to offer people the opportunity to be vaccinated, the health department said.

An ambulance was waiting nearby in case recipients had an adverse reaction.

All six doses were given to abused motorists, including a sheriff’s office worker who intended to attend the previous mass vaccination event but got stuck in the snow, the sheriff said. health department.

Oregon received more than 100,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines last week, according to the state’s coronavirus center. The state is still in Phase 1 of its vaccine rollout, and healthcare workers and teachers were among the first to get it.