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All six of the leftover vaccine doses were administered during the snowstorm, according to the health department.

One person who received the vaccine on the road was a Josephine County Sheriff's Office employee who arrived to late for the vaccination event at the high school, but ended up stranded at the same spot as the health care workers on their way home.

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\"Honestly, once we knew we weren’t going to be back in town in time to use the vaccine, it was just the obvious choice,\" Michael Weber, Josephine County's public health director, told The New York Times of administering vaccines on the road. \"Our No. 1 rule right now is nothing gets wasted.”

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