AstraZeneca in place of Moderna for 11 patients, mistake in Empoli

AstraZeneca vaccine administered in place of the first dose of Moderna to 11 people – 4 women and 7 men with an average age of 36 – yesterday at the Empoli hub. This was communicated by the Ausl Toscana Centro, explaining that it had “immediately communicated the event” to the interested parties and that this morning, “as a precaution”, to activate “a surveillance protocol that provides for the active takeover of the subjects by the Day Service in the medical area of ​​the San Giuseppe hospital unit, directed by Masotti “. “After the episode – the Ausl also informs – an internal analysis is underway by the competent Company Clinical Risk Structure, to understand how what may have occurred for the healthcare company, at the moment, seems to have been a clerical error in the inoculation phase of the first dose of vaccine “.