{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Freezer fails at hospital as new supes sworn in","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":390,"description":"January 5, 2021 — Two new county supervisors were sworn in yesterday morning, shortly before the compressor went out in a freezer containing 830 doses of the Moderna vaccine at the Ukiah Valley Adventist Hospital.\r\nAdventist Health and the county’s public health department get separate allocations of vaccines from the state. So far, the county has received one batch of 975 doses from Pfizer and one batch of 400 from Moderna.\r\nMost of the county’s allocation of 400 doses was in the malfunctioning freezer, minus sixty that were used at a clinic at the fairgrounds in the afternoon. CEO Carmel Angelo said that the scheduled clinic did proceed as planned. As for the unexpectedly defrosted medicine, Public Health Officer Dr. Andrew Coren said “every one of those vaccines found a person’s arm,” after the city of Ukiah, three nursing homes and a church were among the entities that put together emergency clinics to administer all the vaccines before they were presumed to expire at 2pm. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed that after the freezer’s compressor failed, an alarm that would have alerted staff also failed. She said a manual log indicated the exact time of the power failure, which is how administrators knew, at around 11:30 in the morning, that they only had a few hours to find the arms they needed.\r\nTami Bartolomei, the emergency management coordinator for the city of Ukiah, reported that her team took about fifteen minutes to put together a clinic at the conference center. City EMTs gave the vaccine to over a hundred people, including seven floor staff from Building Bridges, the homeless shelter.\r\nSheriff Matt Kendall said NaphCare nurses from the jail inoculated 94 sheriff’ s department and other county personnel, including himself, in the Donovan Room, near the Emergency Operations Center. An eyewitness to the scene at the hospital, where vaccines were also being given out, described people running from all directions and lines snaking into the hospital and a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}