A syringe filled with COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, medical residents at the CU School of Medicine have been working with COVID-19 patients. As the hospitals they work at started to get Pfizer vaccines for frontline health care workers this month, residents were excited and relieved. But, in the first week of vaccine distribution they said they were treated as less of a priority than other medical professionals working with COVID-19 patients.
“It really felt like a willful disregard for our health and wellbeing,” said a senior resident who works at both Denver Health and UCHealth. “It felt like we were forgotten that no one had even considered to include 1,200 members of the health-care workforce in this plan to vaccinate people in the first round of vaccinations.”
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Stanford Vaccine Algorithm Left Frontline Workers at Back of Line
Stanford Medicine officials also studied guidelines then built a mathematical algorithm that prioritized people who on paper were at high risk for COVID-19, such as older employees. But not all who came into contact with patients were doctors and nurses. by Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle / December 23, 2020 TNS
(TNS) - Dec. 24 To choose who would be first in line for a coronavirus vaccine, UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco gathered a group of brainy people this fall to study guidelines and prioritize employees who came into the most contact with patients, including janitors. Kaiser Permanente did much the same across 21 medical centers.
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on Dec 19, 2020 at 8:59 am
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I agree with the resident who defined this as indefensible. And, to borrow a word from our mayor, it is rich that Stanford would blame an algorithm. Stanford! I don t buy it; an algorithm for something this important and this new had to have been written recently by people who are expert at doing such things and then tested. This is Stanford. Tech Central. The explanation is kind of pathetic. It also raises questions. Those administrators and doctors who got it know they are not on the front line; where are their voices in this? Why is it that those who should have gotten the vaccine but didn t needed to raise their voices in protest while those who shouldn t have gotten it but did apparently kept their silence and rec d something so badly needed by those on the front line? Who cares about an apology - get the vaccine to those working so hard to give comfort and save lives.