Mary Wilson
Well-known member
Jan. 20, 2021 at 6:04 a.m. CST
By Andrea Salcedo
When trucks arrived at 35 sites across Maine on Monday, workers opened them to inspect hundreds of vials of the Moderna vaccine — another key shipment in the state’s efforts to inoculate residents from the coronavirus.
But when they looked at the electronic thermometers outside the boxes, they quickly found a problem: a red “X” on the monitors’ screens, alerting them that the vials had spoiled because of improper temperatures at some point along the journey.
... The news came the same day that authorities in Michigan announced that an even larger shipment of the Moderna vaccine containing nearly 12,000 doses had been ruined by temperature control issues during shipment, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
... Those discoveries have prompted separate investigations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Moderna and a distributor to determine exactly how and why the vials were ruined.
... In Michigan, authorities learned in recent days about thousands of ruined doses through McKesson Corp., a health-care distribution company in charge of shipping coronavirus vaccines to the state. The vials, which were shipped on Sunday, “had their temperature reported as going out of range and getting too cold,” the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/20/moderna-vaccine-spoiled-maine-michigan/
By Andrea Salcedo
When trucks arrived at 35 sites across Maine on Monday, workers opened them to inspect hundreds of vials of the Moderna vaccine — another key shipment in the state’s efforts to inoculate residents from the coronavirus.
But when they looked at the electronic thermometers outside the boxes, they quickly found a problem: a red “X” on the monitors’ screens, alerting them that the vials had spoiled because of improper temperatures at some point along the journey.
... The news came the same day that authorities in Michigan announced that an even larger shipment of the Moderna vaccine containing nearly 12,000 doses had been ruined by temperature control issues during shipment, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
... Those discoveries have prompted separate investigations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Moderna and a distributor to determine exactly how and why the vials were ruined.
... In Michigan, authorities learned in recent days about thousands of ruined doses through McKesson Corp., a health-care distribution company in charge of shipping coronavirus vaccines to the state. The vials, which were shipped on Sunday, “had their temperature reported as going out of range and getting too cold,” the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/20/moderna-vaccine-spoiled-maine-michigan/
