A New Zealand man received 10 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day after being paid by an unknown number of persons to pose as them at different sites, a Ministry of Health official said Saturday to the New Zealand Herald. Astrid Koornneef, MOH group manager of operations for the Covid-19 vax program would not give specifics about the man’s identity or where exactly the deception took place, only that they’re forwarding information to law enforcement.
The man is unlikely to be harmed by the 10x doses, said vaccinologist and associate professor Helen Petousis-Harris, citing documented instances in which recipients had accidentally been given undiluted concentrate of the vax. He’s definitely going to feel like absolute shit the next day from the immune response, said Petousis-Harris, also calling the people who paid the man “unbelievably selfish” for taking advantage of an idiot who needed money.