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Man Arrested After Allegedly Injecting People With Untested Covid-19 Vaccine

Nina Golgowski
·2-min read

A man was arrested in the United States last week on federal charges after allegedly selling injections of a self-made and untested Covid-19 “vaccine” to customers online.

Johnny Stine, 55, from Washington, who also allegedly peddled cancer vaccines, presented himself as a biotech expert who for $400 (£290) to $1,000 (£730) would travel across the country to inject people with his purported coronavirus vaccine, the Department of Justice said in a release.

“Untested, untried and potentially unsafe — this defendant was injecting people with an unknown substance claiming it was a vaccine for Covid-19,” U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said in a statement.

Johnny Stine, seen in a Facebook photo that was included in a search warrant, is accused of selling his self-made
Johnny Stine, seen in a Facebook photo that was included in a search warrant, is accused of selling his self-made

Stine, who operated under his business North Coast Biologics in King County, was arrested on Thursday on a federal warrant for allegedly introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce. He did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.

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Authorities say Stine advertised injections of his vaccine online as early as March 2020, when the Covid-19 outbreak was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.

“Stine claimed that his main biotech effort was creating vaccines that attack cancer tumours. He indicated that he had used a similar method to develop his COVID-19 vaccine,” federal prosecutors said in a release.

Stine told potential customers on Facebook that he developed a vaccine for the virus in “half a day” and that he did not want to wait months to obtain proper approval for it due to regulatory testing, according to a lawsuit filed against Stine by Washington’s attorney general in June. This lawsuit followed the Food and Drug Administration sending a warning letter to Stine’s company in April about its vaccine postings online.

A Facebook post by Johnny Stine in March, documented by the office of Washington's attorney general, announced that he would be offering his alleged vaccines for $400 (£290) a person.
A Facebook post by Johnny Stine in March, documented by the office of Washington's attorney general, announced that he would be offering his alleged vaccines for $400 (£290) a person.

At least one person who was injected with Stine’s vaccine was hospitalised this month for Covid-19, the justice department stated in its release.

One of Stine’s early prospective clients was reportedly the mayor of the San Juan...

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