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Charge dropped against Harris County Public Health doctor accused of stealing COVID-19 vaccine doses

https://abc13.com/dr-hasan-gokal-doctor-accused-of-stealing-vaccine-covid-19-theft-harris-county-vaccinations/10005308/

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A judge dismissed a case against Harris County Public Health worker Dr. Hasan Gokal, who is accused of taking a vial from a vaccine site in Humble. Records show no probable cause in Gokal's case.

Gokal worked for the county and the district attorney argued he stole the doses to give to family and friends, but Gokal's attorney said the doses would have been thrown out if he had not intervened.

"It seems that his motives were a bit more mitigating, it wasn't like he was taking this medication to try and sell it," legal expert Steve Shellist said of the case.

The district attorney's office told ABC13 the district attorney has the option to take this case to a grand jury. So far, a final decision has not been made.

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/houston-doctor-fired-covid-vaccine.html

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The Texas doctor had six hours. Now that a vial of Covid-19 vaccine had been opened on this late December night, he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours.

Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator.

After midnight, and with just minutes before the vaccine became unusable, the doctor, Hasan Gokal, gave the last dose to his wife, who has a pulmonary disease that leaves her short of breath.

For his actions, Dr. Gokal was fired from his government job and then charged with stealing 10 vaccine doses worth a total of $135 — a shun-worthy misdemeanor that sent his name and mug shot rocketing around the globe.

NY and CA are not alone in this moronicity of inflexibility. Is this a Texas thing or a Harris County (Houston, etc.) thing?
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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NY and CA are not alone in this moronicity of inflexibility. Is this a Texas thing or a Harris County (Houston, etc.) thing?

Harris County.  I know where my daughter in Texas got her shot, the place does walk-ups at the end of the day to use up all available vaccine from the no-shows.
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Apparently the PTBs who fired the doctor didn't like how many of those the doctor was able to find had Indian family names, https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/02/11/dr-gokals-midnight-run-no-doses-wasted-charged-theft-fired-equity/ .

 22222frying pan They really would have preferred that the doses he used be thrown away, in the name of Equity. 22222frying pan
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Soros-Backed DA Wants to Prosecute Doctor Who Vaccinated Unauthorized People

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/02/12/soros-owned-da-wants-to-prosecute-doctor-who-vaccinated-unauthorized-people-n1425134

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Instead of backing down and apologizing, Ogg is doubling down. She’s taking Gorkal’s case to a grand jury, trying for an indictment for theft. The doctor was fired from his job for violating “protocol.” His bosses say he should have returned the unused vaccine or thrown it out.

The Texas medical establishment is backing Gorkal and support doctors who skip vaccination protocols in order not to waste a single dose.

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If what Gokal’s claiming is true—that he was told doses should be allowed to expire rather than be injected—anybody who told him this and anybody who thinks this way needs to be ejected from any sort of position of authority in the vaccination process.

By all means, focus on those who are at the greatest risk of spread or those who would suffer the most or are most likely to die if they’re infected. But no moral or ethical goal is served when any dose of a vaccine goes to waste. Nobody’s version of “equity” should result in fewer people being vaccinated against a deadly disease out of a comically cruel concept of fairness.

IMO, had most of the ineligibles Gokal injected been black and/or Hispanic he would not be in hot water. But Indians (the nation) are an un-PC minority.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Texas Medical Board Clears Houston Doctor Accused of 'Stealing' COVID Vaccine Doses He Wouldn't Let Go to Waste

https://reason.com/2021/03/16/texas-medical-board-clears-houston-doctor-accused-of-stealing-covid-vaccine-doses-he-wouldnt-let-go-to-waste/

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The Houston-area doctor who was unfairly fired—and threatened with prosecution—for refusing to let a vial of COVID-19 vaccine go to waste has finally been vindicated.

In January, Dr. Hasan Gokal briefly became national news when he was fired from his medical work with Harris County, Texas, and Kim Ogg, the county's district attorney, publicly announced plans to charge him with theft. Ogg initially characterized Gokal as having stolen a vial of the Moderna vaccine in order to give injections to his wife and others.

But Ogg's initial charges were thrown out by a judge after the facts became more clear: Gokal had in reality done the best he could to find people to inject before the doses expired after the conclusion of a vaccination event. His wife was the last person he injected, minutes before the final dose was set to expire. And Gokal says he had informed county health officials of what he was doing all along.

On Monday, the Houston Chronicle reported that the Texas Medical Board finally cleared the doctor of any wrongdoing:

He probably won't, but he should sue his former employer.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.