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Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents
Friday, December 18, 2020
Medical residents and fellows protest the university s vaccine allocation process outside Stanford Hospital on Friday morning in Palo Alto, Calif.
Ben Solomon
Stanford Medicine apologized on Friday for its vaccine distribution plan – a plan that came under fire for leaving out nearly all of its medical residents and fellows, many whom regularly treat COVID-19 patients.
The residents waged a protest on Friday morning, holding signs and demanding answers from Stanford s leadership about why just seven of more than 1,300 residents at Stanford were selected to receive the vaccine in the first round of 5,000 doses.
Stanford Medical Residents Revolt After Doctors Who Don t Treat COVID Patients Get Priority for Vaccine Before Them
Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine. It became known this week that while there are more than 1,300 residents and fellows at the hospital, many of whom are working on the front lines with COVID-positive patients in the county that currently has the highest rate of surging infections in the Bay Area there has been no clear plan to get them vaccinated, while many surgeons and doctors who do not see patients daily are getting vaccines first.