At least 42 people in West Virginia who thought they received the COVID vaccine at a vaccination event hosted by the Boone County Department of Health received a shot of Regeneron, an antibody cocktail used to treat the virus, say West Virginia National Guard on Thursday. Now the State Department of Health and Human Services is trying to contact all those affected. While the drug is unlikely to endanger their health, officials said they will be monitored and given priority status for vaccination. “By the time we were notified of what happened, we acted immediately to correct it and immediately reviewed and strengthened our protocols to improve our distribution process to prevent this from happening again,” he said. Major General James Hoyer.
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