‘I’m A Freaking Grad Student’: Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin Defends Work After City Cuts Ties With Group

CBS News Philly via AP ^ | 01/31/2021 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

When Philadelphia began getting its first batches of COVID-19 vaccines, it looked to partner with someone who could get a mass vaccination site up and running quickly. City Hall officials might have looked across the skyline to the world-renowned health providers at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University or Jefferson Health.

Instead, they chose a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology with a few faltering startups on his resume. And last week, amid concerns about his qualifications and Philly Fighting COVID’s for-profit status, the city shuttered his operation at the downtown convention center.

[Kid Shelleen]

With all the mayhem, rioting, lawlessness and general chaos affecting deep blue America if I had to pick one story to illustrate the incompetence, hubris, buffoonery and corruption of progressives this would be it. AND this is just the top layer of the onion.

Too bad the MSM is obsessed hunting the white supremacist boogeyman

[allendale]

Much the same nonsense in New York City. Those vaccines will go to waste.

[Kid Shelleen]

*** Philly Metro Ping ***

[PeterPrinciple]

Instead, they chose a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology with a few faltering startups on his resume.

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Competence is not importance, but faithfulness to the party is key.

[Leaning Right]

Let’s go easy on this guy. At least he didn’t administer any of the doses himself. Oh, wait. He did administer some of the doses himself. From the article:

“Doroshin also conceded that he took home four doses of the Pfizer vaccine and administered it to friends, although he is neither a nurse nor licensed health practitioner.”

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Reading the article and I’m not sure the guy is a bad guy that the headline is trying to make him out to be. Instead this makes the city look really incompetent but that’s not new

[ConservativeInPA]

There is a fundamental flaw in the way city folks think and operate. I moved away from Philadelphia in 1982. I can't pinpoint the exact reasons why I could barely tolerate Philadelphia and the vast majority of Philadelphians back in '82. But I vowed never to return. My differences have grown even greater and continue to grow. Only when you move from that cesspool will you be able to see there is a different and better life. It will make you more freedom loving. It will make you more conservative. It will make you a better person and you will be able to live with yourself.

Abandon American cities while you can. Just don't bring any desire for more government with you.

[StAnDeliver]

Schadenfreude!

[9YearLurker]

Has there ever been a psych student who wasn’t a head case?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

You left off the part that they were set to expire and nobody else signed up for vaccinations

[Leaning Right]

> You left off the part that they were set to expire and nobody else signed up for vaccinations <

Because that doesn’t matter. This guy is completely unqualified to administer any shots. He should have sent the doses to the nearest hospital. Let professionals make the final decision.

A good friend of mine has some bad allergies. He was told to take a Covid shot only in a clinical setting, as the shot could cause very serious side affects.

I’ll bet this guy knew nothing about that, or anything else that could have gone wrong. Yet he went ahead and gave the shots. That’s indefensible.

[School of Rational Thought]

The headline is misleading.

The story reflects more than one special interest group vying for the business.

[glorgau]

They picked a grad student just to have someone to scapegoat.

The student was completely disposable.

[Kid Shelleen]

You broke the code. The anointed were exposed and they gave this kid the Trotsky treatment.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Hate to say it, but the business of friends and relatives getting preferences in vaccines over those supposedly with higher priority is probably more widespread than acknowledged - as scarce as the vaccine is, one of the few local sites available to us in south Jersey ran out almost right away, with rumors wild that some of the supply went to - yes, relatives and friends of the managers over the local elderly and impaired.......