Advocate Aurora Health in WI: Employee intentionally destroys nearly 500 does of vaccine

[Dennis Donovan]

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BREAKING: Advocate Aurora now says an employee at its Grafton hospital intentionally removed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from a refrigerator resulting in nearly 500 doses having to be thrown away

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An internal memo sent to employees tonight said “We are more than disappointed that this individual’s actions will result in a delay of more than 500 people receiving their vaccine.”

8:28 PM · Dec 30, 2020 from Wisconsin, USA

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The employee has been fired, the company says
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Statement: “We have noticed appropriate authorities for further investigation.”

8:34 PM · Dec 30, 2020 from Wisconsin, USA

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The company on Monday said 50 vials. (Each vial contains 10 doses.) Tonight’s release says 57 vials

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Monday’s statement the company released



9:08 PM · Dec 30, 2020 from Wisconsin, USA

[irisblue]

1. Wow. That would seem to be several felony level charges

[SheltieLover]

3. I would think so, Iris!

[Massacure]

15. Willful destruction of property in excess of $2,500 is a Class I felony in Wisconsin

That could get this person up to three and a half years in prison. I'm assuming the vials are valued at more than $50 each. If not, it would be a Class A misdemeanor (and potentially up to nine months in jail).

[whopis01]

18. It should be attempted murder n/t

[central scrutinizer]

25. And be banned from any hospital

If the asshole comes down with COVID-19

[SheltieLover]

2. Chumper? Flat earther?

Mass murderer? Lock his/her ass up!

[exboyfil]

4. Probably believed lizard people

Were dispensing it.

[lunasun]

5. That would be just north of Milwaukee WTF?

[FeelingBlue]

12. Red Land

Outside of Milwaukee County is Trump Land, full of Fox News, Q People, white supremacy, under- educated, self-satisfied white people who want nothing to do with Milwaukee.

[greenjar_01]

6. Under. The. Fucking. Jail.

We used to hang saboteurs.

[kcr]

7. I'm confused. It says it was intentional

But then goes on to say it was an accident.

[tblue37]

11. The accident piece was from the earlier report, before they learned it was intentional.

[kcr]

17. Ah, I see that now

The order of the Tweets (I guess it was Tweets) threw me off. I was reading it like it was a news report.

[Dennis Donovan]

20. I posted the tweets in sequence, but, yes, it's confusing when you read the last quoted tweet

[kcr]

26. I just saw an article about it on NPR.

I hope the person who did this gets jail time.

[soothsayer]

22. I'm still confused as to whether they intentionally spoiled it

Or if they intentionally removed it to get a jump on thawing it for the morning.

The motive is unclear.

Either way, that sucks.

[LiberalFighter]

8. The person needs to be prosecuted and convicted.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Like burning life boats when ship is sinking. Or destroying fire extinguishers during a

huge fire.

[tblue37]

10. An antivaxxer?

[DangerousRhythm]

13. This is infuriating.

As I’m looking up providers who can give me the shot, because I’m nervous as hell going back into my job that now has 4 confirmed cases since last Monday, and THIS asshole is out here destroying precious vaccine? FFS.

[TexasTowelie]

14. I wouldn't want to be one of the people that received the vaccination

after the chain of custody was breached. There is no telling whether this individual tampered with any of the vials in order to garner negative publicity about the vaccine.

[RockRaven]

16. This is stochastic manslaughter...

Which isn't a real thing in the law, but still.

People will die because of this. I can't tell you who, but it is a nonzero number, given how long it is going to take to vaccinate everyone in this country and all those who will get infected, pass it on, fall ill, and/or die in the meantime.

As an accident or mistake, it is tragic. As intentional, it ought to be treated like an attempted bombing.




That said, I will add a caveat that we've got no idea what the interrogation/internal investigation was like and whether the first statement or second statement more accurately represents the motive behind the action. The cynical part of my mind recognizes that the company is going to have to acknowledge the lost doses sometime, and their options are to a) admit they've currently still got a careless/incompetent employee who hurt people with their negligence, or b) admit they've fired an employee for an honest mistake, or c) admit they had hired a malicious employee who they've since fired -- and I can imagine some thinking that c) is the best way to spin this....

[Efilroft Sul]

19. Every place along the vaccine distribution chain needs to get ready for a much worse attack.

The armed anti-vax nutters out there are looking to strike a blow against microchipping in the name of freedom and Trump. Don't believe for a minute that they won't burn it all down out of ignorance and spite.

[Hekate]

21. Sounds damn felonious to me. I hope "Appropriate authorities" include the District Attorney.

[soothsayer]

23. Might not have been malicious. But might have. We'll see I guess.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. At the cost per injection, that's got to be felony vandelism.