A hospital pharmacist in Wisconsin was fired for intentionally corrupting hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine by taking them out of the refrigerator overnight, was arrested Thursday.
Police in Grafton, Wisc. – about 25 miles north of Milwaukee – confirmed the arrest but did not immediately disclose the suspect’s name as he is not yet to be formally charged.
The suspect was arrested on charges of reckless danger, adulteration of a prescription drug, and criminal property damage.
The Aurora Medical Center had fired the pharmacist earlier on Wednesday after admitting to deliberately removing 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from a hospital refrigerator last week.
Each vial contains approximately 10 doses of the vaccine.
It remains unclear what motivated the man to ruin the long-awaited vaccine.
Advocate Aurora Health Care Chief Medical Group Officer Jeff Bahr said in a press call on Thursday that the pharmacist took the bottles out of cold storage overnight from December 24 to December 25, replaced them, and then left them overnight from December 25. until December 25. 26.
When a colleague discovered the bottles seated, the pharmacist initially played it off as an accident, saying that he had taken them out of the refrigerator to access something else and forgot to put them back.
Upon further questioning, the pharmacist admitted to deliberately disposing of the vaccines, hospital officials said.
With Wires