Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents
By Laurel Wamsley
December 18, 2020
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.
A council composed of the chief residents sent a letter to Stanford’s leadership on Thursday night expressing anger and disappointment as they had learned that residents and fellows would not be a priority in the first allocation. Residents are doctors in training, who have graduated from medical school.
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Stanford Medicine apologizes after doctors protest administrator vaccines
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Residents at Stanford Hospital protested Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, executives decision to give vaccines to some administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients rather than frontline workers.Courtesy of Ben Solomon
This story was updated at Dec. 18, 4:30 p.m. to include the following statement issued by Stanford Medicine: We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan. Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine. We apologize to our entire community, including our residents, fellows, and other frontline care providers, who have performed heroically during our pandemic response. We are immediately revising our plan to better sequence the distribution of the vaccine.
The epidemiologist sitting before the cameras spoke with calm authority. It was late March, and as the coronavirus spread across the United States, it came as no surprise that journalists were turning to John Ioannidis. The Stanford University medical professor was famous for his rigorous assessments – and frequent debunking – of disease treatments. He was a consummate physician-researcher, combining fluency in the mathematical models that predict a pathogen s lines of attack with experience at the bedsides of patients suffering from Aids. The surprise came in what Ioannidis had to say. As many public health experts and US government officials were urging people to stay home to avoid infection, he speculated that the coronavirus might be less dangerous than assumed. News media were overhyping the disease. The greater risk lay not in Covid-19 but in overzealous lockdowns to prevent its spread.
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