Oregon Health Workers Administer Expiring Vaccine To Stranded Drivers | All In | MSNBC

In Oregon, some lucky people got vaccinated simply by getting caught in the right snowstorm at the right time. Chris Hayes talks to two of the health care workers responsible for it, Michael Weber and Leah Swanson. Aired on 01/28/2021.
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51 comments

    1. Initially offered 1st dose 12/28 got it on 1/5. I get my 2nd dose Moderna 2/2 i feel extremely fortunate

    2. @Jeffrey Cheng Just out of curiosity why do you not want the shot? Don’t believe it’s necessary, waiting to see if there are long term effects?

    1. @Tim Smith They had proper I.D.’s with them. Driver licenses, work I.D.’s. Now if they were had no work I.D’s, unmarked vaccine bottles in a brown paper bag, No, I would pass on taking the shot.

    2. @El R. You never know in today’s society! The world we live in isn’t like it used to be! Back in the day you left your door unlocked and people were generally kind!

  1. Thank you for your awesome work!!! This story reaffirms my faith in humanity!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦄🦄🦄🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌠⭐☀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌈

    1. @Shmo They explain it all in the video. The health care workers had the paperwork, and they took all the info they needed from the people they vaccinated. So they can send them their vaccine cards and contact them to schedule an appointment for a second dose.
      As for how you would know if the IDs are real, I guess you decide for yourself if you believe them or not. They said that lots of the people in the cars declined the vaccine.

    2. @Shmo She said that they took all of the recipients’ information and were able to enter it into their computer right there, and had their addresses and would be sending them their CDC vaccine cards, which would let them set up the appointment for the second shot. It wasn’t just one car with a couple of people in it who said, “Hey, do you want a shot?. He said there were a bunch of cars, with people from the vaccine clinic, including an ambulance. A doctor was there, as well. I totally understand why someone would feel uncomfortable with it. On the other hand, if I saw is that everybody was there and showed ID and paperwork and so on, to the point where I was comfortable it wasn’t a scam, I would have taken the vaccine if I thought I really needed it and wasn’t otherwise going to get it for a long time.

  2. If anyone cursed the traffic accident and then lucked out with the vaccine, I bet they appreciated that silver lining!

  3. Love how excited Chris Hayes is on behalf of the people who unexpectedly received the Covid-19 vaccine 💉 shots. ❤️

    1. @Tim Smith They weren’t expired. They were going to expire if they weren’t used that day. And if they didn’t give them to the randos in the cars, then they would have expired without being used.

    2. @Tim Smith They would have expired in 4 hours. The vaccines can only be out of the freezer for a certain amount of time. They weren’t expired yet, but might have been expired before they got to their destination. So instead of letting the vaccines expire they gave them to people before the vaccines would expire.

    3. @Engage360 I’m sitting in Portland right now. I live here. Apparently you don’t live here or you’d know the city is still standing. Pretty much the same as it’s always been. The reports of ‘burning down’ are greatly exaggerated. You’re pretty much a complete fraudulent misrepresentation, aren’t you?

  4. Good quick thinking and super resourceful on behalf of these Oregon public health folks. Not a single dose wasted!

    1. What’s funny was that was Grant’s, home of alot of our Anti Vax nutters
      At least it wasn’t Estacada. They would’ve found a way to turn it into Meth

  5. I love these stories of quick thinking health workers. They won’t waste a drop. Makes all of our lives much easier to deal with. Stay safe

  6. After this year of lies and confusion, isn’t it wonderful to see people using their common sense so that vaccines wouldn’t be wasted.
    And no comments about being Republicans or Democrats. Compared to what we’ve seen lately, this is an example of a real patriotic act. Americans helping Americans.

    1. YES, YES YES!!!! I was thinking the same thing!!!! Selfless, doing a good thing, thinking of the general good. Won’t find that in a Trump universe. America is coming back!!!!

  7. Good job peeps! How many Americans would actually do that? We know that 73 mil Americans would let those expire. It’s so terrible that our country has become so disgusting that this story is so unusual and excellent.

  8. Honestly, I would have said no to the vaccine myself, but this is a really cool story and these people are very resourceful. I’m just glad that people who wanted the vaccine had the opportunity to get it so that way there we were not throwing out those things that could’ve gotten into the arms of people who wanted them.

  9. My daughter works at a senior nursing care facility. All of the elderly patients received their first vaccination shots, then they gave all of the nursing staff & management their first shot. They had some extra left over & instead of it going to waste they asked if parents would like to get the vaccine shot. My daughter asked me & I said heck yeah! I really did feel like I just won the lottery, also happy to know it didn’t go to waste.

  10. My Dad said this sort of thing happened at a grocery store near him. They were doing a clinic in the parking lot and when it was over they had doses left, so they went in the store and offered the shot to all of the workers in the store.

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