diff --git a/tasks/quality_control/task_vadr.wdl b/tasks/quality_control/task_vadr.wdl
index 501456311..45d423f52 100644
--- a/tasks/quality_control/task_vadr.wdl
+++ b/tasks/quality_control/task_vadr.wdl
@@ -46,9 +46,20 @@ task vadr {
       # prep alerts into a tsv file for parsing
       cut -f 5 "~{out_base}/~{out_base}.vadr.alt.list" | tail -n +2 > "~{out_base}.vadr.alerts.tsv"
       cat "~{out_base}.vadr.alerts.tsv" | wc -l > NUM_ALERTS
+      
+      # create flag for manual curation
+      vadr_test=$(cat "~{out_base}/~{out_base}.vadr.alt" | grep "nmiscftr" | grep  "ORF3a\|ORF6\|ORF7a\|ORF7b\|ORF8\|ORF10" | wc -l)
+      echo $vadr_test
+      if [ "$vadr_test" -gt 2 ]; then 
+      echo "FLAGGED" | tee VADR_FLAG
+      else
+        echo "PASS" | tee VADR_FLAG
+      fi
 
+    
     else
       echo "VADR skipped due to poor assembly; assembly length (unambiguous) = ~{assembly_length_unambiguous}" > NUM_ALERTS
+      touch VADR_FLAG
     fi
 
   >>>
@@ -58,6 +69,7 @@ task vadr {
     File? alerts_list = "~{out_base}/~{out_base}.vadr.alt.list"
     File? outputs_tgz = "~{out_base}.vadr.tar.gz"
     File? vadr_fastas_zip_archive = "~{out_base}_vadr-fasta-files.zip"
+    String? vadr_flag = read_string("VADR_FLAG")
     String vadr_docker = docker
   }
   runtime {
@@ -66,5 +78,6 @@ task vadr {
     cpu: cpu
     dx_instance_type: "mem1_ssd1_v2_x2"
     maxRetries: 3
+    continueOnReturnCode: "True"
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/workflows/theiacov/wf_theiacov_illumina_pe.wdl b/workflows/theiacov/wf_theiacov_illumina_pe.wdl
index 7f9fc2598..05ce1c120 100644
--- a/workflows/theiacov/wf_theiacov_illumina_pe.wdl
+++ b/workflows/theiacov/wf_theiacov_illumina_pe.wdl
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ workflow theiacov_illumina_pe {
     String? vadr_num_alerts = vadr.num_alerts
     String? vadr_docker = vadr.vadr_docker
     File? vadr_fastas_zip_archive = vadr.vadr_fastas_zip_archive
+    String? vadr_flag = vadr.vadr_flag
     # Flu IRMA and Abricate Outputs
     String? irma_version = irma.irma_version
     String? irma_type = irma.irma_type