Man says it’s ‘unbelievable’ he and 14 others got expired COVID vaccines at Sask. pharmacy – CBC

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Nov 30, 2022

A Regina man is angry after learning he, his wife and about a dozen others were recently injected with expired COVID-19 vaccines.

“We were trying to do the right thing. We’re protecting my family and others by getting this vaccination. And to hear that you got something expired, it was unbelievable,” Jignesh Padia told CBC News.

On Nov. 19, Padia and his wife went to the Southland Mall Safeway pharmacy to get a bivalent COVID shot, while their son got a flu shot.

He recalled that he sensed something was off.

“We did notice that the pharmacist appeared a little bit tired,” Padia said.

He said that’s why he double checked with the pharmacist that he and his wife were getting bivalent shots and made his son get the flu shot first “to avoid any mismanagement.”

Then this past Friday, Padia got a call from the pharmacy informing him that the shots he and his wife received had expired on Nov. 2.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/expired-covid-vaccines-pharmacy-1.6668406