“ Oregon health-care workers were stuck in a snowstorm with expiring vaccines. So, they gave shots to strangers caught i

[btfc]

‘ “We knew the vaccine would not make it back to Grants Pass,” said Weber, 40. “In all likelihood, it was going to expire.”
After consulting with his team, Weber and four staff members trekked through the snow, knocking on car windows in search of six lucky arms.
One team member carried a bin with the vaccine doses, alcohol, gauze and other medical supplies. Weber, who was in charge of the vaccination paperwork, carried the forms inside his coat. Others carried a container for used needles and an umbrella for the heavy snow.
An ambulance that had accompanied them during a vaccination session at a high school earlier that day was also present and ready to treat anyone in the rare case of an allergic reaction, Weber added. ‘


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[Lux Interior]

Somehow, this reminds me of the guys who show up in front of your house with a truck full of furniture.

[steve...]

That happened about 65 miles northeast of me, on two-lane Highway 199. We've had lots of rain on the coast — inland they got snow.

[Acer]

Pssst. I got some expiring vaccine here in my trunk. You in?

[anonymouse1]

Man, I tear up reading this. This is professionalism, and love, in action.

[mattkime]

HEROES

[graylocks]

Lux Interior wrote:
Somehow, this reminds me of the guys who show up in front of your house with a truck full of furniture.

In my neighbor it's frozen steaks and chicken.

good thinking on that crew's part, though.

[rgG]

My favorite part was where one of the shots went to a lady who had missed her appointment, earlier that day. I was so happy for her.

[davester]

I wouldn't call these people heroes. They were faced with a problem (expiring vaccines) and took initiative to solve it as best they could in the most obvious way available. Call them problem solvers perhaps, but this is no different than an ice cream truck's refrigerator breaking down in a traffic jam and the driver giving out the ice cream to passersby in lieu of letting it all spoil.

[Blankity Blank]

davester wrote:
I wouldn't call these people heroes. They were faced with a problem (expiring vaccines) and took initiative to solve it as best they could in the most obvious way available. Call them problem solvers perhaps, but this is no different than an ice cream truck's refrigerator breaking down in a traffic jam and the driver giving out the ice cream to passersby in lieu of letting it all spoil.

A distinction really worth the effort of making?

And a Klondike bar has zero to none possibility of being timely enough to potentially save a life. A vaccination given because someone thought fast and went the extra mile? Who knows what random exposure it might protect someone from later by being given now rather than later?