2020/12/28 10:56 Michelle Chester, director of employee health services at Northwell Health, right, shows the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Arlene Ramirez, director of p. Michelle Chester, director of employee health services at Northwell Health, right, shows the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Arlene Ramirez, director of patient care at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital, before administering the vaccine to her on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in Valley Stream, N.Y. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool via AP) The massive, year-end catchall bill that President Donald Trump signed into law combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care.
Arlene Ramirez receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week at Northwell Health s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital in New York. Health care workers across the country have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, but doctors and nurses at some hospitals say vaccine distribution has been chaotic. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
toggle caption Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Arlene Ramirez receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week at Northwell Health s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital in New York. Health care workers across the country have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, but doctors and nurses at some hospitals say vaccine distribution has been chaotic.
Arlene Ramirez receives the Moderna coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine at Northwell Health s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital in New York City on Dec. 21. Healthcare workers across the country have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, but doctors and nurses at some hospitals say vaccine distribution has been chaotic. Credit: POOL/AFP via Getty Images
As Hospitals Rollout COVID-19 Vaccines, Health Care Workers Describe Chaos And Anger By
at 9:53 am NPR
Health care workers across the country have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, but doctors and nurses at some of the nation s top hospitals are raising the alarm, charging that vaccine distribution has been unfair and a chaotic free-for-all.
Print article LOS ANGELES The aim of the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is herd immunity the point at which so few people are susceptible to infection that the virus runs out of places to go. In the early days of the pandemic, epidemiologists estimated that would require inoculating about two-thirds of the U.S. population. Now many of those same experts say that figure is almost certainly too low. “If you really want true herd immunity, where you get a blanket of protection over the country … you want about 75 to 85% of the country to get vaccinated,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, told a reporter last week. “I would say even closer to 85%.”