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For some reason the city of Philadelphia decided to partner with a young startup to manage the details of rollout of the covid-19 vaccine. What could go wrong? How about the company’s 22-year-old CEO stealing away with doses to vaccinate his young friends the same day the company turned a slew of vulnerable patients away.
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Days after calling the accusation “baseless,” Andrei Doroshin, a 22-year-old graduate student at Drexel University and the CEO of Philly Fighting COVID, owned up to the accusation during an interview with
Today on Thursday, makingmyriad desperate excuses along the way. “The doses were about to expire,” said Doroshin. “We called everybody we knew, every single person. I stand by that decision.” Sure.
Updated on January 28, 2021 at 6:36 pm
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Drexel University planned to lend nursing students to support a company run by a Drexel graduate student that is now under intense scrutiny for its vaccination partnership with the City of Philadelphia, the university s president said in a statement Thursday.
The plans for the nursing students to work clinical rotations at a vaccination site run by the group called Philly Fighting COVID never materialized, according to Drexel President John Fry.
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But it s the latest revelation in a still-evolving story about a 22-year-old graduate student with no medical experience gaining access to thousands of vaccines and building partnerships with some of Philadelphia s most powerful institutions.
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