Tuesday, July 7, 2015

New Jersey Children Given Wrong Vaccines

An audit found five South Jersey children were likely given the wrong immunizations during a Salem County-sponsored "Shots for Tots" clinic, health officials said. The most egregious error, officials said, was when a toddler boy was likely given an excessive dose of a cervical cancer vaccine.
The free clinic was operated by the Salem County Health Department at Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Mannington Township, officials said. It has since been shut down.

Officials reviewed 22 patient records during an annual audit and found irregularities with shots given to at least five children between July 2014 and June 2015.
A nurse was fired after officials learned a 2-year-old boy was injected with a high dose of Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine. The child's mother and pediatrician were notified late last month, officials said.

Shots for Tots Clinic: 5 out of 22 Kids Given Wrong Vaccination

[PHI] Shots for Tots Clinic: 5 out of 22 Kids Given Wrong Vaccination 
 
Several children in South Jersey were given the wrong vaccination shots and now officials are trying to ease parents' concerns. NBC10's Tim Furlong is in Salem County with the latest on the "Shots for Tots" clinic. (Published Monday, Jul 6, 2015)

Health officials are not sure whether the child would suffer negative effects, but said he may be at risk of neurological damage. Shots of the HPV vaccine are given to boys and girls starting at age 9.
The audit also found $20,000 worth of vaccines were not properly refrigerated. The drugs were thrown away.
 
Mandi Cassidy, the nurse who was fired, told NBC10 Salem County was throwing her under the bus. She insists she didn't make the mistake and resigned before the medical audit was even released. Cassidy claims the County is to blame. 

"I think they not only let down the residents of the county but they let down the nurse that should've been trained properly," she said. Officials say they will pay for the medical monitoring of the five children. 

2 comments:

  1. Wow, this is so, SO sad. =( Thanks for sharing the information. People need to know how risky the whole system is, for so many reasons.

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  2. Hi Diane,

    I was thinking of this analogy this morning. Let's say two identical twin brothers work for two different companies. Fred works for a big auto manufacturer and Joe works for a vaccine manufacturer. They often find they have identical type days. If Fred has a great day he also finds his brother Joe has a great day. On this particular day Fred keeps missing his rivets to the bumpers he's installing on his cars. Only last week he was called in front of management for an error, the last thing he wants is to go before them again. So he keeps right on working even thought the bumpers aren't secured properly. 6 months later there is a recall of those cars because the bumpers keep falling off. We can physically see the results.

    That same day Joe keeps having to adjust the dose of Thimerasol being dropped into the little vaccine bottles because the on/off button keeps sticking. Just last week he was in front of the board because some of the labels were off on his production line. The last thing he wants is his line to go down because of some unforseen problem. However there is no recall of a vaccine with 100 times the dose of mercury, which wouldn't be much, not as much as the eye could see. It's already in a human being's system wreaking havoc.

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