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Bay Area hospital won't receive Covid vaccine after teachers given doses [..]

jelliclesfarm 6y ago
Cozy! Bay Area hospital won't receive COVID vaccine after teachers given doses before frontliners, elderly. Teachers, per the email, were told to impersonate health care workers despite the threat of perjury — with the approval of COO Gary Purushotham — in order to obtain access to the vaccine. "Remember to register under healthcare initially," Johnson's note read. [..] The COO of the hospital says we can access the appointments ... and has cleared [Los Gatos schools] staff to sign up under the healthcare buttons," the email from Johnson to district staff obtained by Spotlight read. Educators are part of Phase 1B in California and Santa Clara County, behind frontline staff, nursing home residents and those 65 and older. [..] + more here: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/23/santa-clara-county-investigating-hospital-for-offering-los-gatos-teachers-covid-19-vaccine-ahead-of-others https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/23/santa-clara-county-in...
uberman 6y ago
CA has received the largest allotment of vaccines by a wide margin and while they have administered the largest number of doses, they remain at the bottom of the pile with respect to administering what they have been allotted (less than 45%). Some CA hospitals report 50% of their staff do not want to be vaccinated. CA has vaccinated less than 1% of its population, Israel more than 20%. We are wasting time with a failed "ethical rollout". If the objective is "herd immunity", we should spend more time and energy vaccinating the people we can rather than creating prioritization road blocks and vaccine shaming.
- jelliclesfarm 6y ago
  i agree. we should just give it to people who want the vaccine. it still creates sufficient immunity. outreach can happen parallel to the vaccinations. everything seems to be based on the model of scarcity economy. sometimes the scarcity is artificial when clearly the issue is about demand rather than supply.

Cozy! Bay Area hospital won't receive COVID vaccine after teachers given doses before frontliners, elderly. Teachers, per the email, were told to impersonate health care workers despite the threat of perjury — with the approval of COO Gary Purushotham — in order to obtain access to the vaccine. "Remember to register under healthcare initially," Johnson's note read. [..] The COO of the hospital says we can access the appointments ... and has cleared [Los Gatos schools] staff to sign up under the healthcare buttons," the email from Johnson to district staff obtained by Spotlight read. Educators are part of Phase 1B in California and Santa Clara County, behind frontline staff, nursing home residents and those 65 and older. [..] + more here: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/23/santa-clara-county-investigating-hospital-for-offering-los-gatos-teachers-covid-19-vaccine-ahead-of-others https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/23/santa-clara-county-in...

uberman 6y ago

CA has received the largest allotment of vaccines by a wide margin and while they have administered the largest number of doses, they remain at the bottom of the pile with respect to administering what they have been allotted (less than 45%). Some CA hospitals report 50% of their staff do not want to be vaccinated. CA has vaccinated less than 1% of its population, Israel more than 20%. We are wasting time with a failed "ethical rollout". If the objective is "herd immunity", we should spend more time and energy vaccinating the people we can rather than creating prioritization road blocks and vaccine shaming.

jelliclesfarm 6y ago
i agree. we should just give it to people who want the vaccine. it still creates sufficient immunity. outreach can happen parallel to the vaccinations. everything seems to be based on the model of scarcity economy. sometimes the scarcity is artificial when clearly the issue is about demand rather than supply.