Covid: Southampton pop-up jab clinic gives 36 children wrong dose

[Roselilly36]

Shocked to hear about this. The subject line is the headline of the BBC news article, if anyone wants to look at the article. I am unable to link.

Omg, those poor kids

So unnecessary giving them to children anyway

These vaccination places are not properly staffed.

Meh
When I googled it the result below was about the inquest of a 15 year old who died of covid. It must be nearing 200 million doses given, the consequences of too large a dose are likely to be headache and tiredness 💁🏻‍♀️

Unacceptable especially given it's a child only clinic.

Fortunately the risk of increasing side effects is very unlikely with vaccines - they're not drugs.

I personally wouldn't be concerned, especially when you contrast this against the high & uncontrolled dose of spike protein a person recieves from a coronavirus infection.

Nonsense. I work in a large vaccination clinic and it is run very professionally. We always have a very senior nurse (Band 8) in charge. On each shift there is nearly always a Band 6 and a number of Band 5s of which I am one. We undertake regular training and updates of various protocols. Each dose of vaccine is double checked. Obviously I can’t speak for all centres but your statement is untrue.

My experience exactly- I’ve had 4/5? doses all in different places and the whole process was rigorous and well organised.

I agree the clinics are usually very well run & staffed, but it's clear in this case something went unacceptably wrong if 34 children weren't given the appropriate dose.

Doesn't give much detail but I'd guess the vaccinator had been doing lots of adult clinics.
The dose of adult Comirnaty is 0.3 ml & they maybe gave 0.3 of the paediatric version by mistake when it's meant to be 0.2ml.
Not a good mistake to make but won't have caused any health issues I wouldnt have thought.

From other reports (GB News) the children affected were given x3 of the usual paediatric dose.

The last one I had, in a shopping centre, was staffed woefully.