The male healthcare worker has not officially been named. A roster of inmates at Ozaukee County Jail show that Steven Bandenburg, 46, was booked on Thursday on the same charges. Brandenburg is also listed as a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin
PICTURED: Milwaukee pharmacist who 'deliberately spoiled 57 vials of Moderna vaccine by taking them out of storage and leaving them out overnight' before 57 people were given the 'ineffective' dose Grafton Police said the former employee of the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton was arrested Thursday afternoon He faces charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug, and criminal damage to property He has not officially been named, but a roster of inmates at Ozaukee County Jail show that Steven Brandenburg, 46, was booked on the same charges Brandenburg is also listed as a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin state records The value of the spoiled vaccines is estimated to be around $8,000 to $11,000 Wisconsin health officials revealed that 57 people were given the ineffective dose of the vaccine after it had been 'deliberately' spoiled Dr. Jeff Bahr, president of Aurora Health Care Medical Group in Wisconsin, said Thursday the culprit had taken the vials out of fridge two nights in a row He not only took them out overnight Friday as first thought but had also done so Thursday - returning them to the fridge the next morning before anyone noticed A pharmacist technician discovered the vials out of the fridge Saturday morning Because hospital officials were unaware they had been left out the night before, some of the doses were given to 57 people Aurora Medical Center Grafton is now working with Moderna to determine how the affected individuals can now be vaccinated safely
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PICTURED: Milwaukee pharmacist who 'deliberately spoiled 57 vials of Moderna vaccine by taking them out of storage and leaving them out overnight' before 57 people were given the 'ineffective' dose
Grafton Police said the former employee of the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton was arrested Thursday afternoon
He faces charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug, and criminal damage to property
He has not officially been named, but a roster of inmates at Ozaukee County Jail show that Steven Brandenburg, 46, was booked on the same charges
Brandenburg is also listed as a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin state records
The value of the spoiled vaccines is estimated to be around $8,000 to $11,000
Wisconsin health officials revealed that 57 people were given the ineffective dose of the vaccine after it had been 'deliberately' spoiled
Dr. Jeff Bahr, president of Aurora Health Care Medical Group in Wisconsin, said Thursday the culprit had taken the vials out of fridge two nights in a row
He not only took them out overnight Friday as first thought but had also done so Thursday - returning them to the fridge the next morning before anyone noticed
A pharmacist technician discovered the vials out of the fridge Saturday morning
Because hospital officials were unaware they had been left out the night before, some of the doses were given to 57 people
Aurora Medical Center Grafton is now working with Moderna to determine how the affected individuals can now be vaccinated safely
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9103981/PICTURED-Milwaukee-pharmacist-deliberately-spoiled-57-vials-Moderna-vaccine.html