Thread by @DrEricDing

📍RECORD—2 HOURS FOR 600 VACCINE SHOTS! A N. California hospital’s freezers holding Modern vaccines went kaput. HCWs thus began giving vaccines to local residents at a furious pace—giving an unintentional roadmap for how mass inoculation can work. #COVID19
latimes.com/california/sto…

2) At 11:35 on Monday morning, senior staff at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Mendocino County were holding their first 2021 executive meeting when the hospital pharmacist interrupted:

3) “The compressor on a freezer storing 830 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had stopped working hours earlier, and the alarm meant to guard against such failure had failed.
The doses were quickly thawing.

4) ““It was not how my day was planned,” said Adventist spokeswoman Cici Winiger, who was in the executive meeting. “At that point it was all hands on deck, drop everything.”

5) Read the full article. It’s a fun one. But this is how we gotta do it! US needs to vaccinate 7-10 million per week to stay ahead of the b117 variant #SARSCoV2. We need mass inoculations!