Key Takeaways
Officials and Aurora have not yet released the name of the pharmacist at Aurora Medical Center Grafton who intentionally left 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine out from the refrigerator overnight. Jail records show Steven Brandenburg, 46, of Grafton, who state records indicate has been a pharmacist since 1997, is being held on similar preliminary charges.
As of Tuesday, 47,157 vaccines have been administered to Wisconsinites, according to DHS; 6,306 of those doses were Moderna vaccines.
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Wisconsin pharmacist deliberately removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from a fridge
The health worker left them out overnight knowing the vaccines would be useless to those who later received them
He faces charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug, and criminal damage to property
Steven Brandenberg was booked under the same charges on Thursday
Brandenburg is also listed as a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin
The former employee of the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton was arrested Thursday afternoon
The value of the spoiled vaccines is estimated to be around $8,000 to $11,000
Wisconsin health officials revealed that 57 people were given the ineffective dose of the vaccine after it had been deliberately spoiled
Leah wrote about this earlier this week. Some psychopath in Wisconsin decided to sabotage over 500 COVID vaccines, some of which were given to health care workers. The vaccine they