Thursday, December 31, 2020

Wisconsin pharmacist arrested for deliberately spoiling COVID-19 vaccine, police say


https://abc7chicago.com/fired-wisconsin-employee-deliberately-spoiled-covid19-vaccine-aurora-medical-center-grafton-covid-19-coronavirus/9223348/

 

Dec. 31. 2020

 

Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing it from refrigeration for two nights.

The Grafton Police Department said the former Advocate Aurora Health pharmacist was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property. The department said in a news release that he was in jail. Police did not identify the pharmacist, saying he has not yet been formally charged.

His motive remains unclear. Police said that detectives believe he knew the spoiled doses would be useless and people who received them would mistakenly think they'd been vaccinated when they hadn't.


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Bahr said that means that the doses people received Saturday are all but useless. Moderna has told Aurora that there's no safety concerns but the system is monitoring them closely, he said.

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