A second hospital in California was busied for administering the Pfizer / BioNTech coronfirus vaccine to relatives of its staff – instead of using the doses for veterans or frontline workers.
Southern California Hospital allowed its staff to invite relatives to receive the vaccine – just as another district hospital did last week, prompting criticism.
“The hospital had planned to vaccinate all of their staff, but a large number of their staff had declined and were sitting on many melted vaccines,” said a woman who was vaccinated at Southern Hospital. California to Orange County Register. “They gave police officers, firefighters and first responders the opportunity to be vaccinated and told staff they could invite four family members.”
Culver City hospital eventually came in with requests from the public and had to return directly to front-line vaccination workers.
Any decision by a hospital for the treatment of relatives of flying staff will be in accordance with the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control, which requires them to be circumscribed at later stages of vaccine distribution.
Southern California Hospital is the second bus facility in the Golden State to provide “extra” doses of the vaccine to family members.
Earlier in the week, a Disney California employee slammed on Facebook that she was unable to get the vaccine because of in-laws that were a “major issue” at Redlands Community Hospital.
“After doctors and staff expressed an interest in the vaccine, several doses remained,” the hospital told the Register. “Because the reconstituted Pfizer vaccine must be used within hours or disposed of, non-linear health care workers have been given several doses to prevent the valuable vaccine from being used. throw away.