Steven Brandenburg, 46, is accused of removing from cold storage 57 vials with 570 doses of the Moderna vaccine in Grafton, Wisconsin, in December. Without refrigeration, the vaccine becomes ineffective.

The pharmacist admitted that he "believed in various 'conspiracy theories'; subscribed to notions of "alternative history"; and was sceptical of vaccines in general and the Moderna vaccine specifically", the [state attorney's office] statement added.

How does somebody like that get through their medical training and get accredited by their professional body?

I'm finding it harder and harder to work out what goes on inside people's minds.

How does somebody like that get through their medical training and get accredited by their professional body?

How does somebody like that get through their medical training and get accredited by their professional body?

Much the same for the Italian doctor (47) who has been arrested for murdering elderly patients to free up beds.

How does somebody like that get through their medical training and get accredited by their professional body?

Much the same for the Italian doctor (47) who has been arrested for murdering elderly patients to free up beds.

For 'caring' professions and for life critical professions, we really do need psychological profiling to test people's values before entrusting them with the care of others...

How does somebody like that get through their medical training and get accredited by their professional body?

Much the same for the Italian doctor (47) who has been arrested for murdering elderly patients to free up beds.

For 'caring' professions and for life critical professions, we really do need psychological profiling to test people's values before entrusting them with the care of others...

You mean like why we have a Police thread?

Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus...

... The new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown. There is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.

Two other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels...

... Higher viral load

Prof Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus. "Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection," he said.

Infected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body "perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness"...

If there is anyone thinking that European citizens would accept that we give this high quality vaccine to the UK and would accept to be treated as second class by a UK-based company, I think that the only consequence can be immediately stopping the export of the BioNtech (vaccine) and then we are in the middle of a trade war.
'So the company and the UK better think twice. When we see Europe is not treated well, not by the United States and not by the UK, then we have to show our weapons.
'We need to tell the other companies in the world if we treat the Europeans as second class, you will suffer for this.'

One in three police officers in England and Wales has been threatened by someone they believed had Covid-19, a survey suggests.

... 32% said someone they thought to be infected had threatened to breathe or cough on them.

Some 21% of officers said a suspected infected person tried to spit at them...

A man making false and misleading statements about Covid-19 tried to remove a sick coronavirus patient from East Surrey Hospital, and is wanted by police.

The man filmed himself arguing with doctors in the ward...

... It follows a trend of people filming supposedly "empty hospitals" and then posting them online and encouraging others to do the same, spread on social media platforms.

In a statement, Michael Wilson, chief executive of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, said: "Any suggestion that Covid-19 doesn't exist or isn't serious is not only extremely disrespectful to the NHS staff caring for patients affected by the virus, but it also puts the lives of others at risk."...

Badly incredible!!

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A new variant of the coronavirus emerged Thursday in the United States, posing yet another public health challenge in a country already losing more than 3,000 people to COVID-19 every day.

The mutated version of the virus, first identified in South Africa, was found in two cases in South Carolina. Public health officials said it’s almost certain that there are more infections that have not been identified yet. They are also concerned that this version spreads more easily and that vaccines could be less effective against it.

The two cases were discovered in adults in different regions of the state and do not appear to be connected. Neither of the people infected has traveled recently, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said Thursday.

“That’s frightening,” because it means there could be more undetected cases within the state, said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious diseases physician at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. “It’s probably more widespread.”