Allegedly Conducting Covid-19 Vaccine Sabotage, US Pharmacist Arrested

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JAKARTA - A pharmacist in Wisconsin, United States (US), has been arrested for allegedly sabotaging 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. He accidentally took the vaccines out of the refrigerator which resulted in damage to them.

The pharmacist who worked at Aurora Medical Center, Grafton, Wisconsin, was fired after taking 57 bottles of vaccine injection from the refrigerator. Where every one injection bottle contains 10 doses of vaccine.

This means that more than 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been damaged, because it has been outside the cooler for a long time. The damaged and ineffective drugs were then thrown away.

So far there has been no information, either from Aurora or the authorities, regarding the motives of the perpetrators of the sabotage. Initial allegations, the pharmacist mistakenly recognized the bottle of medicine so that accidentally took the COVID-19 vaccine out of the refrigerator for a long time.

"The pharmacist is being held in an Ozaukee County prison on charges of reckless behavior that endangers security, mixes prescription drugs and damages property," local police said.

Aurora Health Care Medical Group President Dr. Jeff Bahr guarantees that patients who have been injected with the vaccine outside the cooler will not experience health problems.

His side has also contacted previous vaccine recipients to be re-vaccinated. They assured that no side effects would occur from this event, other than the vaccine being less effective.

Speaking at a virtual press conference on the same day, Bahr said there was no evidence that the perpetrator had tampered with the vaccine in any other way than taking it out of the refrigerator, and that the perpetrator had sabotaged another dose.