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Agencies working with Hancock County pharmacy after patients received overly-diluted vaccine doses

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State officials are working with a Hancock County pharmacy on revaccinating some patients who received overly-diluted coronavirus vaccine doses.

The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy on Wednesday announced Davis Brothers Pharmacy will not be administering vaccine doses at its New Cumberland and Chester locations amid an investigation into patients receiving overly-diluted Pfizer vaccine doses.

According to the board, the impacted doses were administered to individuals 12 and older.

The Board of Pharmacy, the state Bureau for Public Health and the Joint Interagency Task Force for Vaccines is working with the pharmacy to contact patients who received the lower dose vaccines and revaccinate patients.

The state will hold vaccination clinics from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 at 1420 Mountaineer Circle, New Cumberland, WV 26047. Health officials will be administered to anyone 12 and older from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and between 10 a.m. and noon on Thursday.





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