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Nearly 2,000 vaccine doses spoiled at Boston hospital

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Keturah Herron of the American Civil Liberties Union receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Louisville, Kentucky. Pic/AFP

Keturah Herron of the American Civil Liberties Union receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Louisville, Kentucky. Pic/AFP

Nearly 2,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were spoiled at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Boston after a contractor accidentally unplugged a freezer, hospital officials announced.

Staff at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Centre discovered on Tuesday that a freezer had failed, compromising 1,900 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

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