Current Events > Second California hospital busted for giving COVID-19 vaccine to relatives

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https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/california-hospital-busted-for-giving-covid-vaccine-to-relatives/

A second California hospital has been busted for giving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to its employees relatives instead of using the doses for the elderly or frontline workers. Southern California Hospital allowed its workers to invite relatives to get vaccinated just as another area hospital did last week, sparking criticism. The hospital had planned on vaccinating all of their employees, but a large number of their staff declined and they were sitting on a lot of thawed vaccines, a woman vaccinated at Southern California Hospital told the Orange County Register. They offered police officers, firefighters and first-responders to get vaccinated and also told employees they could invite four family members. The Culver City hospital eventually became inundated with requests from the general public and was forced to revert to only vaccinating frontline workers. Any decision by a hospital to treat staff relatives flies in the face of Centers for Disease Control guidelines, which call for them to be inoculated during later stages of the vaccine rollout. Southern California Hospital is the second facility busted in the Golden State giving extra doses of vaccine to family members.

Earlier this week, a Disney worker in California bragged on Facebook that she was able to obtain the vaccine because of an in-law who was a big deal at Redlands Community Hospital. After physicians and staff who expressed interest in the vaccine were administered, there were several doses left, the hospital told the Register. Because the reconstituted Pfizer vaccine must be used within hours or be disposed of, several doses were administered to non-front line healthcare workers so that valuable vaccine would not be thrown away.

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Never gonna be mad that people got a vaccine especially when others turned down and those doses needed to be used.

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MacDaMurderer posted...

Never gonna be mad that people got a vaccine especially when others turned down and those doses needed to be used.

This and the amount of vaccines that expired due to improper storage or were purposely destroyed.

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Lebronwon posted...

Earlier this week, a Disney worker in California bragged on Facebook that she was able to obtain the vaccine because of an in-law who was a big deal at Redlands Community Hospital. After physicians and staff who expressed interest in the vaccine were administered, there were several doses left, the hospital told the Register. Because the reconstituted Pfizer vaccine must be used within hours or be disposed of, several doses were administered to non-front line healthcare workers so that valuable vaccine would not be thrown away.

Why are people who use Facebook religiously for this kind of stuff typically pieces of garbage?

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It makes sense to give it to their relatives.

CommonStar posted...

It makes sense to give it to their relatives.

This TBH.

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If they need to be used then give them to fucking anyone. Never let them expire.

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Yeah, I can't really get angry about this. These vaccines need to be used before they expire and family members of nurses and doctors who may have been exposed to the virus could bring it home to them.

Let me just say I wouldn't want anyone who refused the vaccine to be part my medical care unless they have a really good reason. That's the part that raises my eyebrows that some staff refused.

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I assume the intention here is to make the vaccine available to the immediate family members that medical personnel live with/have regular contact with, and I don't see any reason to be outraged about that.

Better used than throwing away I guess. That some staff refused it should be grounds for dismissal though.

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Better than throwing them away and wasting their supply.

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They need to fire any doctors or staff that refuse to get the vaccine. Anti-vaxxers should not be in charge of medical care.

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iPhone_7 posted...

They need to fire any doctors or staff that refuse to get the vaccine. Anti-vaxxers should not be in charge of medical care.

Easier said then done. The state can't really afford to lose any medical staff at this time as hospitals are getting overwhelmed.

you knew shit like this would happen

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Tenlaar posted...

I assume the intention here is to make the vaccine available to the immediate family members that medical personnel live with/have regular contact with, and I don't see any reason to be outraged about that.

That's not what happened. Not enough Healthcare workers, cops, firefighters are taking the vaccine so they are resorting to ask family members to take it.

It says a lot about the distribution but I guess it easier to just be happy people are getting it then think why is the US so bad at distributing the vaccine. That they are even at risk of having to throw out any of it.

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CommonStar posted...

Easier said then done. The state can't really afford to lose any medical staff at this time as hospitals are getting overwhelmed.

So what about earlier in the year when hospitals were laying off workers simply because they weren't making any money with the suspension of elective surgeries?
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BlueTigerLion posted...

That's not what happened. Not enough Healthcare workers, cops, firefighters are taking the vaccine so they are resorting to ask family members to take it.

It says a lot about the distribution but I guess it easier to just be happy people are getting it then think why is the US so bad at distributing the vaccine. That they are even at risk of having to throw out any of it.

Well yes, I read the entire two paragraphs in the OP. That's what I mean, when they realized they had doses that they had to get used right away they made it available to to immediate family members of medical personnel instead of trying to give them to random grocery store employees or whatever. Having employees call their family members seems like it would be drastically easier and faster and would be more of a benefit in keeping the hospital employees functioning.

MacDaMurderer posted...

Never gonna be mad that people got a vaccine especially when others turned down and those doses needed to be used.

yeah, this.
Insisting that refused doses be allowed to expire because someone isn't "special" enough to get it yet, means you lost your privilege to complain about bleached dumpsters.

Jagr_68 posted...

Why are people who use Facebook religiously for this kind of stuff typically pieces of garbage?

huh?