Doctors say BJC prioritizing older employees for COVID-19 vaccine, not frontline workers
“A 30-year-old nurse who has not been vaccinated still must work on the COVID floor while an administrator is getting a vaccine, one doctor said. Author: Christine Byers (KSDK), Rhyan Henson Published: 7:28 PM CST December 19, 2020 Updated: 7:34 PM CST December 19, 2020
ST. LOUIS Doctors at Barnes Jewish Hospital tell 5 On Your Side the hospital’s administration is vaccinating its staff according to age, and not putting frontline workers first.
The policy which differs from SSM and Mercy’s plan means some doctors, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists and emergency room physicians who treat COVID-19 patients have been told they won’t be vaccinated until the end of January.
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Beginning Sunday, shipments totaling 5.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine may be sent to rural areas, smaller hospitals and local health departments. The first shots are expected to be given Monday.Credit.Andrew Kelly/Reuters
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the Covid-19 vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated.
The move will make Moderna’s vaccine the second to reach the American public, after the one by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was authorized just one week ago.
Hospital uses algorithm to distribute COVID-19 vaccine, says sorry after frontline workers excluded
Stanford Health Care in the US is apologising to its staff after algorithms used to figure out first COVID-19 vaccine recipients ignored the frontline workers.
Priya Pathak | December 20, 2020 | Updated 13:05 IST
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One hospital used algorithms to choose who should get the vaccine. Algorithms ignored frontline workers, leading to protests.
What happens when you put algorithms in charge to figure out COVID-19 vaccine distribution? Well, it seems you end up with chaos, with many people who should get the early protection left out of the process, and some who can wait, getting early access to the COVID-19 vaccine. When the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Stanford Health Care, the hospital used algorithms to allocate it. For some reason - probably incorrect data or wrong inputs - the system driven by these smart algorithms created a list of people who should ge
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Dr. Daniel Shin, an infectious disease specialist, receives the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday at El Camino Health s Mountain View location.
Dr. Daniel Shin, wearing a dark-blue polo shirt and khakis, strolled into a large room on the bottom floor of El Camino Health’s Mountain View campus Saturday morning – a room that, for the indefinite future, will be called the COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. He sat down in a curtained-off makeshift area with a big number “3” taped on it, and rolled up his right sleeve.
The infectious disease specialist stared at the numerous onlookers holding their phone cameras out, hospital staff wanting to see the moment and an official photographer feet away waiting to document the nurse about to inject a needle into Shin’s arm.