Listen: today’s show on the ethical dilemmas of the pandemic.
“At least half of my shifts, when I’m driving home, I’m thinking to myself, did I do the right thing?”
That’s Amal Mattu, an emergency physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. He’s been an emergency physician for more than 25 years. And in those 25 years, he says the ER has consistently delivered ethical, potentially life-or-death challenges. Then the pandemic happened.
In this radio diary, we discuss the ethical complications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this diary … we hear from:
Amal Mattu, an emergency physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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Shawn Hendricks, nursing director at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, was the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the 13-facility University of Maryland health care system. (Photo courtesy of University of Maryland Medical System)
Two physicians, one nurse, a respiratory therapist and an environmental service worker were the first five employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from the University of Maryland Medical System. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore County resident was the first employee in the University of Maryland Medical System to receive the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus.
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The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at hospitals in Maryland and more are expected later this week. Now those hospitals are reckoning with how to dole out the limited numbers of vaccines to tens of thousands of frontline healthcare workers.
Daisy Solares, a respiratory therapist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, was among the first Maryland residents to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
“It felt fine. Good. No pain,” she told reporters immediately after receiving the injection. “Honestly I barely even felt it.”
On Monday, the University of Maryland Medical System, or UMMS, and Johns Hopkins Medicine were among the first healthcare institutions in the country to receive a small number of doses of the highly anticipated vaccine from drugmaker Pfizer.
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December 14, 2020
47 ABC – The FDA recently authorized a COVID-19 vaccine and shipments are on their way to local health departments. Now states are laying out their next steps.
“The vaccine is a critical mitigation strategy in the overall response,” says Doctor Rick Hong, State Medical Director at Delaware Division of Public Health. Public Affairs Officer, Travis Brown say, “we want people to know that they are safe, they are effective, you know they work.”
Officials say the vaccine will be administered in phases. In the first phase, the vaccine will be given to high risk workers, such as health care workers and first responders, and residents in long term care facilities.