California medical staff gave COVID-19 vaccines to their RELATIVES instead of healthcare workers after at least two hospitals were left with 'extra' doses

Daily Mail ^ | 01 Jan 21 | James Gordon

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At least two hospitals in Southern California have been found to be vaccinating the relatives of employees working at the facilities, instead of those in the priority groups including the elderly.

Redlands Community Hospital in Culver City say they found themselves with 'extra' doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and so reached out to people who didn't work at the medical center.

The hospital claim that the vaccine doses would have otherwise expired and insist that all first-responders working at the 420-bed facility were treated first.

A relative who works at Southern California Hospital, but did not want to be identified, also said that family members were invited to receive Pfizer vaccines.

'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,' the woman said to 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.'

She will return to the hospital in a few weeks time to receive a second dose of the vaccine. ...

[Grampa Dave]

There is a logical and simple way to handle this.

Kaiser uses stand by’s for patients in situations like this.

You volunteer to be on call if a patient doesn’t show or cancels.

My wife and I did this with the shingles vaccinations and other procedures.

She even stood by and got a cataract removal and replacement lens due to a patient cancellation.