“but a large number of their staff declined and they were sitting on a lot of thawed vaccines”
So they reached out to cops, firefighters and first responders as well as family members of staff.
I see nothing wrong with this. You won’t have any nurses or doctors in the hospital if they are home caring for sick family members.
Some journalist is a whiny butthurt wokester.
Any place that gets a shipment of vaccine should be administering all of it before the day is out. The plants are running, they'll make more. It's stupid to store this stuff waiting for people that might never show up to take it while you have others that want it. We're only going to get ahead of this virus by vaccinating large numbers of people, get to it.
Same here. If the people for whom the vaccines were intended refused them, and they’d have gone bad otherwise, nothing wrong with getting avalaible family members vaccinated
the cops, firefighters, etc. all have their own scheduled dates and shipped lots for their double jabs. The ‘up to 4 family members’ would imply that youngsters would be offered the vaccine, unless we’re talking in-laws, which would be younger (40s-50s), given the age grouping of most hospital workers.
Since they have a few days to innoculate, (5-days, more than enough time for HR to have a signup/optout sheet for the inhouse staff) a more appropriate action might have been to contact the community senior centers and/or soup kitchen and organize a jab for seniors for the extra doses.
The other problem is bookkeeping. If they’re assigned x number of doses for round one, and they use y doses only for hospital employees, will the second jab round shipment be for x or for y? (enough for a second jab for the relatives?)
How is civilian innoculation tracked if the doses are hidden in a ‘non-medical relatives’ column?
How many ‘extra doses’ are created down the line by someone jumping line, then in their own category, they don’t need it, so more extra (to be disbursed arbitrarily). Rinse and repeat. Not good.
notice how they did not mention the age of the family members. I am betting that the ones that got the vax were either elderly or had some health issues that made them vulnerable. this is me just being hopeful when looking at what happen....there better not be a family member who is a 16 year old sports fanatic and future Olympic champion with no health issue’s getting the extra vax shot.