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– Victor Smith, 91, was in rehab in Ohio when his appointment for a second injection of coronavirus vaccine came on Jan. 25. He was taken to a county site and returned, Live Science reports. “When he got back I spoke to him, he was fine,” said his daughter, Dawn Smith Theodore. It was also a vaccination day at the rehab center and a firefighter showed up a while later and said he had a dose for Victor. The nurse said ‘Victor Smith? ‘And he said,’ Yes, ‘so they gave him the room number,’ his daughter said. But the dose would go to another Victor in the clinic, according to WGCL. “I have two vaccines,” Smith said to his daughter. After the second shot, Smith’s blood pressure dropped and he went into shock. “They pretty much told me he wouldn’t make it,” Theodore said.
But her father recovered. Smith had had his first injection three days earlier; doses should be given weeks apart. The city of Hamilton said the rehab center and the fire department, which handle vaccinations at the clinic, are investigating, according to WLWT. No one has said what brand of vaccine Smith received. In Australia, two patients, ages 88 and 94, received as many as four times the recommended dose of Pfizer vaccine last month, per ABC. They also recovered. Experts attributed the error to the vaccine in multiple dose vials; Australian health workers are used to single-use vaccines. The doctor who gave the injections had not received the necessary training. (Read more stories about coronavirus vaccines.)