Reporter withdrew 0.3 ml of air into the syringe and pushed air into modena covid vaccine vial (dose was to be 0.25 ml).Once reporter began to draw vaccine to 0.5 ml to be have extra vaccine to prime hub and needle, the plunger of the the syringe became trapped at the 0.46 ml line.Reporter attempted to draw back more vaccine to see what was wrong with the syringe, and the plunger was hard to pull from 0.46 to 0.66 ml lines, the syringe was bent and cracked around this measurement causing the plunger to become pressurized between 0.46 go 0.66, causing forced air bubbles to form from the bottom of the syringe to the top.Reporter pushed all vaccine contents back into the vial and removed the syringe and gave it to charge nurse for a second witness on the malfunctioning syringe.Charge nurse watched reporter draw vaccine again with the same syringe and confirmed it was a malfunctioning product.
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