Posted on 01/22/2021 6:54:49 AM PST by george76
Nearly 2000 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were spoiled at a Boston-area VA facility after a cleaning contractor accidentally loosened a plug for a freezer, according to a report.
The shots were discovered by staff at the VA Boston Pharmacy on Tuesday. At least 1,900 doses were compromised, Kyle Toto, a spokesman for the VA Boston Healthcare System, told the Boston Globe.
“The plug was found loose after a contractor accidentally removed it while cleaning,” Toto said.
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Moderna COVID-19 vaccines — as well as doses developed by rival Pfizer-BioNTech — must be stored at very low temperatures, between negative 13 and negative 5 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to maintain this temperature, storage facilities at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center were equipped with alarms intended to trigger if the doses get too warm or too cold, though they did not sound when the freezer was unplugged.
Toto said he wasn’t sure why the alarm did not go off.
“An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the incident and why the monitoring and alarm system did not work as expected,” he said.
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I’m betting it was no ‘accident’...................................
Clean-up crews are typically filled with high-school drop-outs and paid absolute minimum wage. Toss in some drug use in the past twenty-four hours....you are dealing with a guy who just isn’t that bright.
Now it’s probably about as effective as Pfizer.
Administer them to Antifa.
Yep... accidentally on purpose.
Or...it could have just been an accident. But I guess demeaning an entire profession is a reasonable response.
In Wisconsin : a pharmacist intentionally spoiled 57 vials of Moderna’s Covid vaccine..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3920692/posts
Fantastic 😎
I love stories like this including the giant fire at the vaccine plant in India yesterday.
May this wicked witches’ brew be destroyed
probable perp: so WHO was pushing the pFizer (*)
DNA operating systems [”vaccine”]there??
(*) a co-owner of the Wuhan facility
(what is the likelihood?)
I was working in a college lab. We had ordered a calibrated light source, which had to be handled very carefully, as any skin oil would affect the calibration. We were all gathered around a computer working on something when the college property guy came in and asked where the calibrated source was. (Don’t recall the exact cost, but it was in the thousands.) He was working behind us when suddenly, we all straightened and turned around. He had opened the sealed case and applied a property sticker to the bulb itself. Totally ruined its usability. The professor told him what he had just done. He shrugged and said, It has to have a property sticker. There’s no getting around that.
I witnessed similar spoilage throughout my industrial career. Having given it lots of thought, I conclude that some employees are just too unintelligent for their jobs. Or, any job, really. You simply can’t afford to have people with a subnormal IQ working for you.
Reminds me of the hospital cleaning person that would unplug the life support machine every Fri nite to vacuum. Took awhile for the hospital to figure out why people were deceased Sat morn
$15/hr = ~$30,300/year
Roomba from Amazon = $585.99 one-time payout from capital side of ledger.
Life span of approximately 8 years.
Overall savings = ~$241,814.01
Trump’s fault . . . wait . . .
In the building I work in, English is not only a second language but also a third one.
This sounds like a Far Side cartoon
The facility will probably still use it and charge the government full price.
Oh well they aren’t effective anyway and probably harmful...just use sterile saline instead...after all for lib leftists it’s the thought that matters...
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