Nurse filled Pfizer vaccines with saline and injected them | the Chronicle

German nurse tasked with filling six syringes with saline instead of Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccineafter dropping an immunizer vial and trying to cover up his mistake, police said.

According to local authorities, the nurse, who works in a vaccination center in the district of Friesland (Lower Saxony), had dropped a vial (equivalent to six doses) of the Covid-19 vaccine during his manipulation, an error that he wanted to cover up by filling six syringes with saline solution.

“The woman said the reason for her action was to avoid having to tell someone about the bottle she had dropped.”police said in a statement.

The 200 people vaccinated last Wednesday will have to return to the Friesland vaccination center on May 5 for an antibody test. and thus be able to determine who actually received the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, and who were the six people who were inoculated with saline.

Police in Wilhelmshaven / Friesland in northern Germany have reported that an investigation has been opened into a possible “nurse’s bodily harm “, and they also underlined “What saline does not pose a health risk to those affected who have received the mock COVID-19 vaccine “.

For its part, Sven Ambrosy, The mayor of the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony said: “A registered nurse can be expected to make the right decisions, even under pressure, her motive was clear to cover up the incident. It’s still bad behavior, and we also need to look at those 200 people whose trust may have been broken. “

In addition, he added that the priority of the German authorities is to contact those who have received the false Pfizer vaccine, and announced that, from now on, two specialists per cabin will be in charge of applying the vaccines against to reduce errors and errors. complicity. .