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The article says that he reports following the policy as he understood it. He also reports that he was later told he should have disposed of the vaccine or retu
by ivanbakel 6y ago
The article says that he reports following the policy as he understood it. He also reports that he was later told he should have disposed of the vaccine or returned it, rather than caring about wastage.
The county prosecutor maintains that policy directed him to act differently, since that is the basis of her case against him. So, from the prosecutor's perspective, he bypassed policy. Since I'm making a point about the prosecutor's motivations, it's charitable to see this from the view of the prosecutor.
- mcv 6y agoA policy that was not written down anywhere. There's no reason to fire someone over such an informal policy that contradicts an explicit guideline. At best, this should have warranted a warning and the introduction of a clearer policy. But in this case, the policy would still be wrong if it encouraged wasting vaccine that could have been used to save lives. It's frankly bizarre to see people value bureaucracy over lives.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoThe case has been thrown out, which gives you a sense of how ridiculous the prosecutors position was. Quoting the Harris County judge who threw it out, > In the number of words usually taken to describe an allegation of retail shoplifting, the State attempts, for the first time, to criminalize a doctor’s documented administration of vaccine doses during a public health emergency,” Bynum wrote in his order, adding the prosecutor’s affidavit was “riddled with sloppiness and errors.” https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/amp/Harris-County-judge-blasts-Ogg-for-charging-doc-15896405.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/am...