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The founder of Philly Fighting COVID — the student-run start-up whose attempt to distribute some of Philadelphia’s first COVID-19 vaccines ended in national embarrassment for the city — has filed a lawsuit against Drexel University.Andrei Doroshin alleged Drexel did not allow him to defend himself before it labeled him a thief, expelled him, and “very publicly branded [him] a racist, classist, elitist, leaving his entire future in ruins.
Health officials entrusted the then-22-year-old Drexel grad student with no health-care experience to distribute some of Philly’s first doses at a mass clinic only to then cut ties after questions emerged about the group’s for-profit intentions and its privacy policy. He was involved in another vaccine distribution outfit that planned to launch clinics in New York and Georgia with his father. A whistleblower
that the group did some “corner-cutting measures” similar to Philly Fighting COVID and the Georgia Health Department subsequently cut ties.
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