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Freezer Failure

Title (Dublin Core)

Freezer Failure

Description (Dublin Core)

January 28, 2021, around 11 PM one of my friends called me, we normally don’t talk on the phone so I assumed something was wrong. I could tell that she was driving and her voice was shaky. She told me that a freezer had failed at her mom’s work and that around 1,300 vaccines would be expired by 5 or 6 AM. She was told to try to get anyone she knew to get to the hospital in order to reduce the chance of wasting such a hard to get thing. This was prior to my state lifting restrictions on who was eligible for the vaccine yet. Not everyone could get it, just certain people due to age, pre-existing conditions, and career.

The clinic did a good job at still trying to make sure that people who were eligible got to the front of the line, but they knew that they needed to make sure every vaccine was used. My girlfriend and I would not have made it there in time since we were over 3 hours away, but her family all lived within a 30-minute drive. We started calling her parents and brothers to wake them up and get moving. Her mother, oldest brother, and soon to be sister-in-law were all teachers and were going to have to start teaching in person again. None of them would have been eligible until a month or more after going back in person, and they were all decently nervous about being in person unvaccinated.

Her family got lucky and was able to get vaccinated that night. I cannot thank my friend enough for calling me to keep the people who have become my family safe.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 28, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

PBS
Associated Press
Erika Groudle (She/Her)

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story
news article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/seattle-hospitals-rush-out-vaccines-after-freezer-failure
https://web.archive.org/web/20220330003547/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/seattle-hospitals-rush-out-vaccines-after-freezer-failure

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Healthcare
English Home & Family Life
English News coverage
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

vaccine
clinic
teacher
family
Washington
freezer failure

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Seattle
Vaccine Stories
Vaccination
Hospitals
Washington
UW
UW medical center
News

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare
Vaccine Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Erika Groudle Biography Sheet
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/23/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/29/2022
05/20/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/23/2022

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Covid 19

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This item was submitted on March 23, 2022 by Erika Groudle (She/Her) using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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