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Only Seven of Stanford s First 5,000 Vaccines Were Designated for Medical Residents — ProPublica

The U.S. Response to COVID-19 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Update, Dec. 18, 2020: This story has been updated to add comments from Stanford Medicine. Stanford Medicine residents who work in close contact with COVID-19 patients were left out of the first wave of staff members for the new Pfizer vaccine. In their place were higher-ranking doctors who carry a lower risk of patient transmission, according to interviews with six residents and two other staff members and e-mail communications obtained by ProPublica. “Residents are patient-facing, we’re the ones who have been asked to intubate, yet some attendings who have been face-timing us from home are being vaccinated before us,” said Dr. Sarah Johnson, a third-year OB-GYN resident who has delivered babies from COVID-positive patients during the pandemic. “This is the final straw to say, ‘We don’t actually car

Stanford neglecting its frontline workers in COVID-19 vaccine rollout, doctors protest

Stanford neglecting its frontline workers in COVID-19 vaccine rollout, doctors say Maura Dolan © Provided by The LA Times A worker in Scotland prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Associated Press) Stanford Medical Center doctors who are completing their residencies and fellowships staged a protest Friday, saying they were passed over during the first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations even though they work directly with patients who have the highly contagious disease. A few dozen of the residents and fellows carried signs at the demonstration outside a door where the Palo Alto hospital was staging a photo opportunity for journalists covering the initial vaccinations. One protest sign read: I saw 16 Covid patients in the last 24 hours . More than Double the amount of residents getting the vaccine.

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