Thai clinic shut down for selling fake Moderna vaccine: cops

The owner of a Prachinburi province clinic was being dragged in for questioning today after patients said he was selling bogus Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. 

A day after the authorities raided the Kularb Clinic in Prachinburi’s Kabinburi district, where clients complained they were scammed THB1,500 (USD$46) per dose, Col. Pattanachai Pamornpibul of Wangg Takian Police said the owner was set to be questioned Wednesday.

A woman said she had transferred up to THB6,000 to vaccinate her family of four, but on the date of their scheduled inoculation, she said clinic staff never showed her the vaccine’s packaging. She said she and her family members did not suffer any of the expected side effects, either. 

The woman said that it was later, when she learned from a friend that Moderna was not yet officially available in Thailand,  that she called health officials and…