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Can an intramuscular vaccine accidentally go into the fatty tissue instead of the muscle?
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Very unlikely with properly trained injector -- and anyway it wouldn't matter much if that happened. Try to stop obsessing about it; you won't get answers any different than you already have had in your previous questions about this.
Answered 4/26/2021
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