But... why were they rushing? It's not like the vaccine appeared out of thin air on Friday. Its arrival was known for weeks/months. The staff and where they wor

But... why were they rushing? It's not like the vaccine appeared out of thin air on Friday. Its arrival was known for weeks/months. The staff and where they work is known. The error itself is understandable but the conditions leading to it and its propagation are not. The further, unforgivable sin is that the error was brought to their attention internally on Tuesday, the administrators didn't bother to fix it, and then when it became more widely known to the hospital staff Thursday afternoon they still did not act to fix it. And then Friday, suddenly they're in the news, they decide they're going to fix it? Disclosure: Am a physician at Stanford.