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Man gets vaccine overdose, lands in hospital

The incident occurred after the containers with diluted and undiluted versions of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were mixed up.

• April 30, 2021
Photo of Coronavirus vaccine used to illustrate this story (Credit: USC)
Photo of Coronavirus vaccine used to illustrate the story (Photo Credit: USC)

A man on Friday was recovering in a German hospital after accidentally receiving five times the standard dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Health authorities in the eastern German city of Schwerin told the local daily Schweriner Volkszeitung that it had been a regrettable incident that occurred after the containers with diluted and undiluted versions of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were mixed up.

As a precaution, the man was taken to the hospital for observation but had so far not shown any signs of problems, the authorities said.

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