A 91-year-old man in Ohio, Victor Smith, who had been shot by Covid weeks before, accidentally received his second injection twice in a day, four hours apart. He then went into shock.
Smith was admitted to a rehab clinic to recover from a fall, which happened shortly after his first shot in Covid, in January. After the clinic took him to a vaccination facility to receive his second injection, they later brought vaccines to patients at the rehabilitation center and, thinking he was a different Victor, gave him a third injection.
From LiveScience:
“They transported him to get his chance, and when he came back, I talked to him, he was good,” his daughter Dawn Smith Theodore told WLWT.
That same day, patients at his rehab clinic were also being vaccinated. There was confusion among similarly named patients at the rehab clinic, and Smith received yet another dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – his third …
“I think a city fireman came in [to the rehabilitation facility] and said they have a chance for Victor, and the nurse said ‘Victor Smith?’ and he said ‘Yes’, so they gave him the room number “where her father was, Theodore said.” My dad said, ‘I got two shots.’ ”
Smith went into shock and was hospitalized, where he is now recovering.
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