It’s a good thing the pharmacies are providing vaccines. It’s a bad thing that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart (and perhaps others as well) are exploiting the opportunity to add millions of people to their marketing databases. The COO of CVS said to the Wall Street Journal (paywall warning), “Every one of these customers is coming through our digital front end, so we have their email, we have their text message, and we have the ability to communicate with them regularly.” Another article about this here at The New Republic (also paywalled) says " It’s not as if businesses aren’t expected to sell to potential customers—that’s the whole point. But the crass commercial underpinnings of America’s vaccine distribution reflect a country in which every public good has either been privatized or relegated to the military, seemingly one of the last competent—and well-resourced—institutions in American life."
I’ve taken that. Isn’t it a precharged spring loaded injector?
The only one that needs compounding being given in the U.S. right now (i.e. isn’t ready out of the vial) is the Pfizer. In Minnesota, compounding MUST be done by a licensed pharmacist. Its one of the reasons Pfizer’s shot is much more complex.
Enbrel is available in multiple formats-self-injectors, cartridges, vials, etc.
I’m going with this one as well. I’m not medically trained or anything, but I have given assorted cats shots over the years. The first thing I look for when I’m ready is how much air I need to bleed. I certainly would have noticed if there was only air in the syringe and I really can’t believe that any medical trained professional would have done that once, and certainly not multiple times.
My only theory as to how the saline came to be in the syringes is that they were prefilled for practice (I once let a nurse co-worker practice giving me shots for chocolate. A quick five painless “TB tests” for a pound of Godiva? I was all about that shit.)
Mistakes happen and I think its pretty awesome that this really is the only incident like this so far.
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Isn’t it a precharged spring loaded injector?
[/quote] Maybe now, but she got vials of it packed in coolers and needles. I quickly learned how to make sure there was no air in the needle.
It’s not a person, it’s a grocery chain, Kroger, in Midlothian, Virginia.
Looking at the title of the post, I did think it was about a woman named “Virginia Kroger” who was giving fake vaccinations, either to trick people on purpose or because she believed they were beneficial somehow. Didn’t start to understand it happened at a Kroger in Virginia until I saw the picture of the store! Now I get it, though!
It’s been a hot minute since I lived in an area that had Kroger stores.