Holy shit!

Customers expecting to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a Kroger pharmacy in Virginia were injected with something else, and now the grocery chain is apologizing.

Kroger isn’t saying exactly how many customers were affected, but said “a small number of individuals” were given saline shots instead of vaccine, WTVR reported.

It was an “honest mistake,” Kroger spokeswoman Allison McGee told the TV station.

In a statement to McClatchy News, Kroger said the situation “was immediately addressed ... and all vaccinators were retrained and reminded of our current vaccination policies.”

After realizing the mistake, the customers, who went to Kroger’s Little Clinic in Midlothian, were contacted, the statement said, and all have since been given the correct shots.

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Back in December, shortly after the first vaccine shipments began arriving in the U.S., West Virginia officials reported 42 people who lined up for the Moderna vaccine were mistakenly injected with Regeneron antibody treatment, McClatchy News previously reported.

In late February, a 91-year-old Ohio man was hospitalized after being vaccinated twice in the same day, McClatchy reported. He was given two doses of Moderna’s vaccine just four hours apart, which sent him into respiratory distress, but he ultimately recovered.

  McClatchy

To err is human.