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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo an Indian doctor gave extra vaccines that were able to spoil at the end of the night
to people he found in his contact list, (or people who were notified to him from people in his contact list) has been fired and now the attorney general wants to charge him with stealing vaccines.
The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.
The Texas doctor had six hours. Now that a vial of Covid-19 vaccine had been opened on this late December night, he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours.
Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator.
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For his actions, Dr. Gokal was fired from his government job and then charged with stealing 10 vaccine doses worth a total of $135 a shun-worthy misdemeanor that sent his name and mug shot rocketing around the globe.
(A judge dismissed the initial charge as "groundless" )
The officials maintained that he had violated protocol and should have returned the remaining doses to the office or thrown them away, the doctor recalled. He also said that one of the officials startled him by questioning the lack of equity among those he had vaccinated.
Are you suggesting that there were too many Indian names in that group? Dr. Gokal said he asked.
Exactly, he said he was told.
https://tinyurl.com/1qj0bofv
This is the attorney general who took up the case again
Harris Countys district attorney, Kim Ogg
And this is her phone number - Phone: (713) 274-5800
Some people have left Google reviews critical of her actions.
gibraltar72
(7,499 posts)hundreds of doses for staff and employees of Hillsdale College. Most of these people were not on any list of eligible people. When Mr. Hodshire was questioned by people concerned about this he went into a tirade on hospitals Facebook page. Eligible people in Hillsdale Mi. were especially upset by the fact that Hillsdale College were biggest scofflaws in county, at one point were preaching herd immunity. They also resisted everything Governor Whitmer tried to do to combat the spread of the virus.
drmeow
(5,012 posts)The only ask about jury nullification for marijuana trials!!!