Attorney Aurora Health said a now fired worker deliberately disposed of 57 vials of Moderna coronavirus vaccine from a refrigerator last weekend, rendering them useless and discarded.
First, they “made Aurora believe” that elimination was a mistake, but on Wednesday, the worker “acknowledged that she deliberately cut the refrigeration vaccine,” according to a report from the fitness provider.
The Grafton Police Department said on a Wednesday night that it was reported through Aurora shortly after 6 p. m. “about a worker who falsified vials of the COVID-19 vaccine” at his hospital at 975 Port Washington Road.
He goes on to say that the incident is being investigated through the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration, as well as through Grafton Police.
Aurora said the employee’s action “is a violation of our core values. “
The worker ignored and Aurora stated that she had notified “the relevant government for further investigation. “
Aurora said no other worker was worried and planned to get more data on Thursday.
Its continues:
“We still think vaccination is our way out of the pandemic. We are more than disappointed that this person’s action affects more than 500 people who received their vaccine. “
Each vial has enough vaccine for 10 vaccines.
The vials were removed on Friday and the maximum was dropped on Saturday, according to an earlier aurora.
Doctors could still administer some of the vial vaccine in the legal window 12 hours after cooling, but had the maximum, according to an earlier aurora statement.
The Modern vaccine can be stored at freezer temperature for up to six months and remains solid at the overall refrigerator temperature for 30 days, making it less difficult to carry than the Pfizer vaccine, but once thawed, the vaccine freezes again.
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The Modern vaccine can last up to 12 hours.
When the first doses of Pfizer vaccine, which will be stored in extremely cold temperatures, arrived in Wisconsin in mid-December, public fitness officials revealed the 8 regional centers where they were stored, raising “safety reasons” and saying they had consulted with the Department of Homeland Security.
“It’s a valuable vaccine. We don’t need to create security risks,” said Julie Willems Van Dijk, undersecretary of the State Department of Health Services, on December 14.
Since then thousands of doses of the less fragile Modern vaccine have been sent to the state, and it is known whether the maximums are stored in hospitals and workers’ clinics, or in centralized centers.
This story will be updated.
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