GRANTS PASS, Pray. (AP) – Oregon health workers who were trapped in a snowstorm on the way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went from car to car injecting trapped drivers before several doses expired.
Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook, that the “makeshift vaccination clinic” happened after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a highway after a vaccination clinic.
Six of the vaccines were about to expire, so workers decided to offer them to other arrested drivers.
The injections were intended for other people, but “the snow meant that these doses would not reach them until they expired,” said the health department.
Not wanting to waste them, employees went from vehicle to vehicle, offering people the chance to get the vaccine. A county ambulance was available for security.
All doses were administered, including one to an employee of the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office who arrived too late for the vaccination clinic, but ended up being interrupted with the others, officials said.
Josephine County Public Health Director Mike Weber said it was one of the “coolest operations in which he participated”.