Pharmacist charged with ruining COVID-19 vaccine doses believes Earth is flat and the sky isn’t real
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Boxes containing vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are stored at the Kedren Community Health Center, January 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images
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At the Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis., pharmacy technician Sarah Sticker found 57 vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine left outside the clinic’s refrigerator. She did not think it was accidental, but suspected a colleague who frequently spread false and outlandish claims, according to court records.
REVEALED: Wisconsin pharmacist who deliberately destroyed Moderna vaccine vials is a flat-Earther and very engaged in conspiracy theories
Steven Brandenburg, 46, allegedly told a co-worker at Advocate Aurora Health Systems about his beliefs in conspiracy theories
Brandenburg believes the sky is a shield put up by the government to prevent people from seeing God
He also believes the COVID vaccine is micro-chipped to turn off some people s birth control while making others infertile
The pharmacist was also accused of carrying a .45 and admitted to investigators that he carries a concealed handgun
Brandenburg apologized for his behavior in an email to investigators
Jan 27, 2021
The Department of Justice has an interesting case on their hands. A Wisconsin Pharmacist, Steven Brandenburg, 46 years old, plead guilty this past Monday for tampering with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. He faces two charges of attempted to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of danger of death or bodily injury according to npr.org.
These charges have the potential to enforce Brandenburg to pay a fine of $250,000 along with a lengthy sentence of 10 years in prison. He plead guilty of removed a specific box of the Moderna vaccine from the pharmacy refrigerator for multiple hours, Justice Department officials said. Brandenburg, who has spent the last 23 years as a licensed pharmacist, knew this would leave the vaccines inert or less effective.(npr.org) These actions were brought to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Grafton Police Departme