Two elderly people in a Queensland aged care home have been given "higher than the recommended dose" of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed.
An 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were given the doses yesterday.
When asked how much was administered Mr Hunt said it had been reported that four times the recommended dose had been given but it was still under investigation.
"It hasn't been confirmed, because it's actually really hard to be able to tell what was in the needle, but it couldn't have been more than [four times]," Mr Hunt said.
Mr Hunt said both patients, from the Holy Spirit facility in Carseldine, were being monitored and neither had shown any signs of an adverse reaction to the doses.
The doctor who administered the doses has been stood down from the vaccine program.
"I think it's very important that we're up front," Mr Hunt said.
"The safeguards that were put in place immediately kicked into action and a nurse on the scene identified the fact that a higher than prescribed amount of the dose was given to two patients.
"Both patients are being monitored and both patients are showing no signs at all of an adverse reaction. But it is a reminder of the importance of the safeguards."
Mr Hunt said there were "highly developed training modules" that were mandatory to complete by those administering the vaccine.
"In relation to the individual doctor, we'll leave that to the investigation as to whether or not they either did not understand or did not complete it, but it was a serious breach in terms of following the protocol," he said.
"Our advice is that both doses were administered consecutively and, as a consequence of that, the nurse stepped in immediately.
"This is an individual practitioner who has clearly made an error."
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said they may need to review the training modules going forward, but in the early clinical trials of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, experiments were conducted with different doses, including four times higher than what was eventually prescribed.
"During those trials, the side effect data was not a higher problem," he said.
"Because we wanted to get on with the giving of this vaccination quickly, we went for a single one-size-fits-all model and it is the same training.
"There may be a need for us to modify that going forward.
"This was a mistake, whether it was simple or not we leave that to the investigation."
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