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What a vaccine breakdown in Stralsund!
Due to individual errors in vaccine preparation, eight employees of a Stralsund nursing home received five times the dose of the corona vaccine. After Sunday’s incident, the seven women and one man were sent home.
As Vorpommern-Rügen district administrator Stefan Kerth (SPD) said on Monday, four of the eight affected people have been admitted to a hospital for observation as a precaution. They showed flu-like symptoms.
The district reported in its announcement that, according to information from manufacturer Biontech, larger doses of the vaccine had already been tested on test subjects in the phase 1 study without serious consequences. No permanent adverse events were reported.
Local injection site reactions and flu-like symptoms are dose dependent and generally mild to moderate and transient.
A Biontech spokeswoman confirmed this information. In tests, amounts up to 100 micrograms were administered without serious consequences. The usual vaccine dose is 30 micrograms.
He referred to your company’s detailed product information. The first sentence reads: “This is a multi-dose vial, the contents of which must be diluted before use.”
