Pharmacist who left Covid vaccine jabs out of fridge wanted to trick people
Aurora Health said the man had initially claimed he made an inadvertent error but the hospital became suspicious, which led to medics firing the man and alerting police
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MILWAUKEE The Wisconsin pharmacist It s become clear this was a situation involving a bad actor instead of a bad process, said Dr. Jeff Bahr, president of the Aurora Healthcare Medical Group.
It s unclear what if any changes healthcare systems like Advocate Aurora will make, but officials say both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are thoroughly documented.
State health officials
Still, there s a growing call for transparency on the vaccine rollout itself. I think there s an opportunity for improved transparency. We re looking at 50 states rolling this out together at the same time, said U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin.
US Pharmacist Arrested On Charges Of Sabotaging Over 500 Covid Vaccine Doses US Pharmacist Arrested On Charges Of Sabotaging Over 500 Covid Vaccine Doses The pharmacist, at the time that 57 vials of vaccine were found left out of cold storage earlier this week, has since been fired but has not been publicly identified, officials said.
Neither motive for sabotage has been offered. (Representational)
A Wisconsin hospital pharmacist was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sabotaging more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine by deliberately removing them from refrigeration to spoil, police and medical authorities said.
The pharmacist, an employee of Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin, at the time that 57 vials of vaccine were found left out of cold storage earlier this week, has since been fired but has not been publicly identified, officials said.
Wisconsin pharmacist deliberately removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from a fridge
The health worker left them out overnight knowing the vaccines would be useless to those who later received them
He faces charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug, and criminal damage to property
Steven Brandenberg was booked under the same charges on Thursday
Brandenburg is also listed as a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin
The former employee of the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton was arrested Thursday afternoon
The value of the spoiled vaccines is estimated to be around $8,000 to $11,000
Wisconsin health officials revealed that 57 people were given the ineffective dose of the vaccine after it had been deliberately spoiled