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Wisconsin health care worker fired after intentionally removing vaccines from refrigeration
By: WTMJ Staff
and last updated 2020-12-31 15:40:57-05
GRAFTON, Wis. â An Advocate Aurora Health employee in Milwaukee intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration, failed to put them back, and rendered them ineffective. They have been fired for doing so, Advocate Aurora Health said in a press release.
Watch the health care group discuss the situation below:
Over the weekend, 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine had to be thrown out when an employee removed the vials from the Grafton clinic refrigerator in order to access something else and did not return them.
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.