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A Worker Accused of Spoiling More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Is Arrested
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The Moderna vaccine can be distributed more widely because it can be stored at normal freezer temperatures.Credit.Cooper Neill for The New York Times
A pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital has been arrested and accused of intentionally removing more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration last week, knowing that the vaccines would be rendered useless and that the people receiving them would think they were protected against the virus when they were not, the police department in Grafton, Wisconsin, said Thursday.
prescription drug, and criminal damage to property.
The male healthcare worker, who has not been named, is being held at the
Ozaukee County jail.
Authorities have yet to identify a motive
Deliberate course of actions to make vaccine medications ineffective
The suspect’s arrest comes the same day Wisconsin health officials revealed that 57 people were given the ineffective dose of the vaccine after it had been ‘deliberately’ spoiled.
Dr. Jeff Bahr, president of Aurora Health Care Medical Group in Wisconsin, said Thursday that the un-named worker had not only taken the vials out of refrigeration overnight Friday as first thought but had also done so Thursday night – returning them to the fridge the next morning before anyone noticed.
Advocate Aurora Health defends COVID-19 vaccine security after bad actor spoils doses
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Advocate Aurora Health officials said Thursday they are still confident in the system s security protocols despite an employee intentionally removing 570 doses of coronavirus vaccine from refrigerated storage over the weekend, saying the act was the result of a bad actor and not bad processes.
A pharmacist at Aurora Medical Center-Grafton in Wisconsin admitted to removing 57 vials, which each containing approximately 10 doses of the Moderna vaccine, from freezers at least twice between Dec. 24 and Dec. 26. The employee, who has not yet been identified, returned the vials into storage each time and has been fired. Local and federal authorities are investigating the incident.