Police say they arrested a pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital on Thursday on suspicion of tampering with more than 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine. Pharmacists are accused of deliberately removing them from the refrigerator so that they spoil.
Several doses of the questions were administered before hospital officials determined that the drugs made by Moderna had been left unchecked for a long time to keep them ineffective. The remaining dose was omitted.
The pharmacist, who has not been publicly identified, worked at Arora Medical Center in the Milwaukee suburb of Grafton. Dr. Ora Rora Health Care Medical Group President. Jeff Bahr said Moderna has assured the hospital that the doses taken from the refrigerator are not a safety issue for those who have been injected.
“Importantly, there is no evidence that the person in question tampered with the vaccine in any way other than removing it from the refrigerator, which is why the vaccine is known as detouring.”
When the wrong vials were found on December 26, the pharmacist said it was an unintentional mistake. But hospital officials said he had on Wednesday agreed to knowingly remove the vaccine from the cold storage.
Neither ur rora nor law enforcement offered any potential motive for the sabotage.
Video transcript
– Police say they arrested a pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital on Thursday on suspicion of tampering with more than 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine. Pharmacists are accused of deliberately removing them from the refrigerator so that they spoil. Several doses of the questions were administered before hospital officials determined that the drugs made by Moderna had been left unchecked for a long time to keep them ineffective. The remaining dose was omitted.
The pharmacist, who has not been publicly identified, worked at Arora Medical Center in the Milwaukee suburb of Grafton. Dr. Ora Rora Health Care Medical Group President. Jeff Bahre said Moderna has assured the hospital that the doses removed from the refrigerator are not a safety issue for those who have been injected.
JEFF BAHR: Importantly, there is no evidence that the person in question tampered with the vaccine in any way other than removing it from the refrigerator, making the vaccine known as detouring.
– When the wrong vials were found on Dec. 26, the pharmacist said it was an unintentional mistake, but hospital officials said he admitted to deliberately removing the vaccine from the cold storage on Wednesday. Neither ur rora health nor law enforcement officials presented any possible motive for the sabotage.
