Early afternoon on Sept. 22, I received the wrong vaccine shot (flu instead of the latest COVID) at Safeway Pharmacy in The Dalles. After my spouse and I filled out the lengthy paperwork and spent an hour in the waiting room (the Pharmacy was busy), we finally got our shots. But the assistant who administered my shot glibly dismissed my request for her to enter the vaccine information on my COVID card, saying that "we don't bother with doing that anymore". (Had she done so, the error presumably would have been caught right then and there.) It was only hours later that I discovered a voicemail from the pharmacist asking me to call back. He said that they had discovered their vaccine mistake minutes after we left, and profusely apologized for it. Several internet websites indicate that occurrences of administering the wrong vaccine are "extremely rare". Regardless, whichever facility you may choose for receiving your shots, you may well want to triple-check what vaccines(s) you are to about to receive. Obviously, staff should already be doing this, themselves, but ---! read more