A refrigeration tech needed to do some work on a walk-in cooler for a grocery store that has a pharmacy and gives the vaccines. The pharmacist was retrieving items out of it to get them out of the way so he could work in there. He saw an unmarked ziplock bag with two unmarked, unlabeled vials. He picked it up and asked if it was anything important and the pharmacist immediately responded- Oh yes! These are the vaccines. Absolutely no markings or label of any kind on these vials! I personally find this to be very shocking and noteworthy.
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Yeah, the manufacturer's vial would. What I'm saying it if they used an empty sterile vial to mix 2-3 components that wouldn't necessarily have a label on it. They SHOULD hand write some sort of label but if they use it up as fast as they make it then that unlabeled vial will be emptied out and thrown away the same day they make it. Which is why I'm saying it might just be sloppy/lazy on the part of the people in the pharmacy, not a sketchy way for the company to deliver the vax.
There might have been a whole case of labeled vials(of components to mix together) on the shelf below it, but what this guy saw was the 4 vials they mixed up that morning because they have 16 appointments. 4 per vial. (made up numbers as an example)