GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) – Oregon health workers trapped in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event were injecting cars into stranded drivers before they expired various doses.
He said Josephine County Public Health on Facebook that the “makeshift vaccine clinic” took place after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a road after a vaccination clinic.
Six of the vaccines were about to expire, so workers decided to offer them to other stranded drivers.
The shots were aimed at other people, but “the snow meant those doses would not reach them before they expired,” the health department said.
Not wanting to waste them, the staff walked from vehicle to vehicle, offering people the opportunity to receive the vaccine. For safety, there was a county ambulance.
All doses were administered, including one to an employee of the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office, who had arrived too late at the vaccination clinic but ended up with the others, officials said.
Josephine County Public Health Director Mike Weber said it was one of the “coolest operations I’ve been a part of.”