HICKORY, N.C. — A woman is asking a local health department for answers after she got one Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose and one Moderna dose.
When you get vaccinated, you’re supposed to get two shots of the same vaccine, but the woman told Channel 9 that didn’t happen and that her vaccination card shows it.
According to the woman, who asked not to be identified, she looked down at her card during the 15-minute waiting period after getting her second shot and saw the words “Moderna” and “Pfizer” on it.
The mix-up happened earlier this month at the Hickory Metro Convention Center where officials have been administering shots for months. She said the day she went to get her second shot, there were a number of people waiting to get their vaccines.
She sent Channel 9 an image of her vaccination record card where you can see she got the Moderna shot first but was given the Pfizer vaccine when she went back for her second dose.
“I would basically say that I had a panic attack while I was there,” she said. “Because I thought something was going to happen to me. I didn’t know much about the vaccine at that time. So I was really panicked about it.”
The woman said she immediately reached out to healthcare workers at the clinic.
We contacted officials at the health department and they said an incident like this is rare but has happened at vaccination clinics across the U.S.
Public Health would contact the person’s physician as a precaution and would also inform Public Health’s supervising physician and the state immunization consultant.
Channel 9 talked to several people getting their shots at the convention center on Thursday. They said they will be double checking their immunization cards and said people should make sure the nurse is aware too.
“I would be very afraid and head to the doctor as fast as I could,” resident Jeff Wallace said.
The health department said if two doses of different mRNA COVID-19 vaccine products are administered, no additional doses of either product are recommended by the CDC.
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