OZAUKEE COUNTY – The pharmacist accused of intentionally breaking nearly 600 doses of the Modern COVID-19 vaccine at a Grafton clinic made its initial appearance in an Ozaukee court on Monday.
Steven Brandenburg is the pharmacist accused of intentionally damaging vaccine bottles at Grafton Aurora Medical Center on December 24.
According to a statement of probable cause, Brandenburg took the box containing the vaccine out of a refrigerator and let it out for 12 hours, making it useless.
Brandenburg told investigators that he believed the vaccine was unsafe for humans and that it would “harm and change their DNA,” the probable cause said. Brandenburg, according to the Grafton Police Department, is an “admitted conspiracy theorist.”
Brandenburg was arrested on December 31 on a first-degree charge of recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug and criminalizing property.
57 people received the vaccine after it was left out, but it is believed there are no health injuries, officials told Aurora.
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