Mon Oct 11, 2021 – 4:11 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) — Walgreens could face significant legal action after one of its Indiana locations gave COVID shots instead of flu shots to two children.
“An Evansville [Indiana] family and their attorney says [the parents and kids] were accidentally given full adult doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine instead of flu shots,” 14News.com, an NBC News affiliate, reported about the October 4 incident.
The Pfizer shots are not approved for children younger than 12 years old, and the dose would be about one-third of the adult dose regardless. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged a link between the Pfizer and Moderna COVID shots and heart inflammation during a June meeting of its vaccine safety panel.
Personal injury attorney Dan Tuley is representing the family. He told the news station the one child is 4 and one is 5. The kids were taken to a pediatric cardiologist and “both are showing signs of heart issues,” 14 News reported.
“Due to privacy laws, we cannot comment on specific patient events. However, in general, such instances are rare and Walgreens takes these matters very seriously. In the event of any error, our
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