Frontline workers were left off the vaccine list at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto. They fought back.
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Protest at Hospital That Left Frontline Workers Off Vaccine List
Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., protested a Covid-19 vaccine prioritization plan that left out the majority of the hospital’s medical residents and fellows.
[chanting] “First in the room!” “back of the line!”
Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., protested a Covid-19 vaccine prioritization plan that left out the majority of the hospital’s medical residents and fellows.
Dec. 18, 2020
This week, some 5,000 doses of Pfizer’s newly authorized coronavirus vaccine arrived on the grounds of Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. a windfall for frontline health workers eager to receive their first dose of the lifesaving injection.
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Stanford Health Care spokesperson Lisa Kim said the revised allocations would be coming out of the first 3,900 doses the hospital received from Pfizer-BioNTech.
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