Aurora Fires Employee That Sabotaged COVID-19 Vaccine Vials
The employee left out over 500 doses intentionally.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. photo by Lisa Ferdinando. U.S. Secretary of Defense, (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
An employee responsible for spoiling 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Grafton medical center was terminated by Advocate Aurora Health.
The healthcare provider disclosed earlier this week that 57 vials containing more than 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna were left outside of a refrigerator overnight. The vaccine is required to be stored at near-zero temperatures and then thawed in a refrigerator.
Wednesday evening it released that the vaccines were left out intentionally and that the employee was terminated.
“We immediately launched an internal review and were led to believe this was caused by inadvertent human error,” said the provider in a statement. It said the employee admitted committing the act intentionally. “We have notified appropriate authorities for further investigation.”
Wisconsin is scheduled to receive approximately 16,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine in an initial shipment and a total of 100,000 doses in coming weeks. The state received approximately 85,000 doses in an initial shipment of the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored at colder temperatures.
The health care provider is not identifying the employee.
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This person needs to be criminally charged for destroying felony destruction of property and reckless endangerment. If the Ozaukee County DA does not have the political will to charge him or her, then Josh Kaul and the State’s Attorney General’s Office needs to get involved.
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