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Philly Fighting Covid, a PPE startup that pivoted to vaccine distribution, had a spectacular rise and fall.
The city provided vaccines to PFC but later cut ties after finding issues in its privacy policy.
The city is still soliciting vaccine partners and the event has spurred conversation about equity.
Andrei Doroshin seemed irate when he posted the statement on his company s website on January 29. It had been a tumultuous week for the 22-year old Drexel University graduate student.
He d admitted on national television to taking a small number of coronavirus vaccines home from a clinic run by his startup, Philly Fighting Covid. The city of Philadelphia had cut ties with his company. The press attention had been relentless.
30 January 2021, 10:01 am EST By Andrei Doroshin, the founder of Philly Fighting COVID who is now bombarded by death threats after the Philadelphia Vaccine Scandal. ( Screenshot from YouTube/Inside Edition )
Philly Fighting COVID (PFC) just started last year as a non-profit startup, which is assigned to act as Philadelphia s first mass vaccination clinic. However, the higher they rose from the beginning, the harder they fell only to plunge to the now-viral Philadelphia Vaccine Scandal.
How Philly Fighting COVID started
Coronavirus was just emerging at the time when the startup began nine months ago. Andrei Doroshin, a 22-year-old graduate from Drexel, spearheaded the formation of Philly Fighting COVID which was composed of members with different backgrounds in medicine, marketing, and engineering.