At least 70 children in Landover, Maryland, were vaccinated against COVID-19 with expired doses after an alleged storage error.

The children, whose ages range from 5 to 11, were given the wrong doses of the Pfizer pediatric vaccine on Nov. 26, which had expired two days earlier, according to a press release by the Prince George's County Health Department.

The expired vaccines are likely less effective in protecting individuals from COVID-19, and they were available to be given to the children because they had been stored in the same refrigerator as the usable doses, the release noted.

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Prince George's County is working with the Maryland Department of Health, Pfizer, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fix the error.

Private clinics will revaccinate the affected children, and they do not face any risk from the expired vaccines.

"It is nice when everyone is in agreement — and everyone was in agreement that receiving the expired vaccine was not going to be detrimental to the children's health," said Dr. George Askew, deputy chief administrative officer for health, human services, and education. "But everyone was also in agreement that it did not give all the protection and that children should get revaccinated."

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He hopes the vaccine error will not make more parents wary about vaccinating their children, he said.