German police probe nurse who swapped Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for saline solution
FRANKFURT - A nurse in Germany was under investigation Sunday (April 25) after she admitted to swapping the coronavirus vaccine for a saline solution in six cases because she wanted to cover up that she had dropped a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Authorities are now urgently asking 200 people who were
inoculated at the German Red Cross vaccination centre in Friesland last
Wednesday (April 21) to come forward to be tested for antibodies to determine
which six people missed out on the vaccine.
Police in Wilhelmshaven/Friesland in northern Germany said
in a statement they had opened a probe into possible "bodily harm" by
the nurse, while stressing that the saline solution did not pose a health risk
to those affected.
It is standard practice for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to
be diluted with saline before it is administered, and it was the nurse's role
to prepare the jabs when she accidentally dropped one of the little bottles,
wasting its contents.
She confessed her action to a colleague, who raised the
alarm on Saturday.
"The woman said the reason for her action was to avoid
having to inform anyone about the dropped vial," the statement said.
The local district has set up a hotline for people who were
vaccinated on the day of the incident to come forward so they can be tested.
"I am deeply shocked by the incident," said
Friesland district administrator Sven Ambrosy, adding that authorities have now
introduced a "four eyes" procedure at the vaccination centre to make
sure no one is left alone with the vials.
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