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Seattle hospital rushes to vaccinate hundreds after freezer breaks

2021-01-31 2 Dailymotion

After a freezer holding precious Moderna COVID-19 vaccines requiring refrigeration broke at a Seattle hospital, medical personnel scrambled to vaccinate as many people as possible at Seattle University and University of Washington clinics.<br /><br />It turned out to be one of the wildest vaccine rollouts ever as medics rushed to use up the vaccine on people before it expired Thursday night and early Friday morning.<br /><br />Between University of Washington Medical Center’s Northwest and Montlake locations, they had 800 unexpected doses to administer.<br /><br />Non-profit health system Swedish tweeted late Thursday night that it had 588 Moderna coronavirus vaccine appointments available from 11 pm til 2 am.<br />The cause of the freezer malfunction at Kaiser Permanente was not immediately clear.

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