Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is serious about cracking down on medical providers who divert COVID-19 vaccines to nonpriority patients or sell them on the black market. “If you skip the line or you intend to skip the line, you will be sanctioned, you will lose your license,” Newsom said Monday, adding that his office was working on details of an enforcement package.
Good. Lives are at stake, and anyone who cuts in front of a healthcare worker or someone at high risk of dying or allows it to happen should be called out and punished in a meaningful way. That hasn’t been the case for pandemic restrictions, and the result has been open defiance of safer-at-home orders and a surge in infections and deaths.
vaccine ahead of schedule this weekend.
Stanford Hospital offered walk-in vaccine appointments over the weekend and some affiliates thought they may be eligible to receive excess doses.
There was not actually an excess supply of vaccines, but an unconfirmed number of non-clinical staff got their shots anyway.
Some Stanford Medicine affiliates who do not work in patient-facing roles were able to get a first shot of the
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this weekend due to miscommunication about walk-in appointments, the Stanford Daily reported Tuesday.
The vaccine was supposed to be reserved for frontline
healthcare workers through next week, with non-clinical affiliates scheduled to receive the vaccine after January 8.
SHARE THIS ARTICLE: Redlands Daily Facts Subscription A 33-year-old woman who reportedly works for Disney bragged in a Facebook post this week that she received the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reserved for frontline health care workers because of a relative’s connection to Redlands Community Hospital. “When I woke up this morning, I didn’t think I […]
Nearly as soon as the COVID-19 vaccine was made available in California, accounts started emerging of people skipping the priority line ahead of frontline workers and long-term care residents.
Most recently, a 33-year-old Disney employee revealed on Facebook that she received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine through a relative with connections to Redlands Community Hospital.
Even though state officials have warned that jumping ahead could lead to sanctions, the state guidance allows for exceptions, and it appears that some people are aggressively taking advantage of it.
Officials at Redlands Hospital confirmed that it administered the vaccine to several non-frontline workers, but only because extra doses were left over after frontline workers had received the vaccine, they said.