|
 Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, was also ordered to pay about $83,800 in
compensation to the hospital at which he worked, according to a
statement https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/hospital-pharmacist-sentenced-attempt-spoil-hundreds-covid-vaccine-doses
on Tuesday from the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District
of Wisconsin.
Brandenburg had agreed to plead guilty to two counts of attempting
to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard for the
risk that another person would be placed in danger of death or
bodily injury.
Court documents showed he purposefully removed a box of COVID-19
vaccine vials from a hospital refrigeration unit during two
successive overnight shifts in December last year, the Justice
Department said in its statement.
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 Brandenburg was skeptical of
vaccines in general and the Moderna vaccine
specifically, and that he communicated his
beliefs to his co-workers for at least the past
two years, it said.
Moderna's vaccine has to be stored and shipped
frozen but does not require ultra-cold
temperatures and can be stored for 30 days in
standard-temperature refrigerators.
(Reporting by Derek Francis in Bengaluru;
Editing by Robert Birsel)
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