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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Dec 31, 2020 12:03:46 GMT -5
In my county a hospital employee INTENTIONALLY left over 500 doses out on a counter to spoil.😠 I read an article about that!
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Post by Peachy on Dec 31, 2020 13:13:48 GMT -5
In my county a hospital employee INTENTIONALLY left over 500 doses out on a counter to spoil.😠 Shit! I hadn't heard it was intentional! Our local news said the person removed the boxes to get something behind them and forgot to put them back. Intentionally destroying 500 doses sounds criminal. Is anything being done besides the person being terminated?
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Post by justthinking on Dec 31, 2020 13:37:38 GMT -5
In my county a hospital employee INTENTIONALLY left over 500 doses out on a counter to spoil.😠 Shit! I hadn't heard it was intentional! Our local news said the person removed the boxes to get something behind them and forgot to put them back. Intentionally destroying 500 doses sounds criminal. Is anything being done besides the person being terminated? The update that it was intentional broke yesterday. The FBI is investigating. That could have provided first doses to every staff person in our school district plus about 150 mire people (just for scale, not because the school staff was supposed to receive those actual doses). The town has about 15,000 people, so 500+ doses is enough for about 1 out of every 30 people in town.
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Post by puppylove on Dec 31, 2020 15:18:34 GMT -5
This is the equivalent of mass murder, IMO.
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Post by villanelle on Dec 31, 2020 16:52:27 GMT -5
This is the equivalent of mass murder, IMO. I don't think a terrorism charge would be too much of a stretch. Okay, in reality I probably wouldn't support that, but I do think that they need to throw any reasonable charge at him or her they can come up with. And if this was a licensed medical professional of any kind, I hope they lose their license. "Do no harm"? I'd say this was direct harm, assuming the story that it was intentional is correct.
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Post by coachgrrl on Dec 31, 2020 17:50:26 GMT -5
Just reporting in.
Day after my vaccine- slight arm pain at injection site and a headache both relieved by Tylenol
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Post by RobinAnn on Dec 31, 2020 18:58:49 GMT -5
I am this >< close to getting re-hired as a health screener at the hospital just so I can get the vaccine sooner rather than later. But then I remember how much the job stressed me so I guess I'll sit at home, patiently awaiting my turn.
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Post by jen on Jan 1, 2021 10:08:41 GMT -5
I think I’m considered front line 1b here (1a being healthcare and people in nursing homes), 1b being policemen, mailmen, food and agriculture workers, essential services personnel. But I have no idea how to actually get on a list. Does anyone actually have a clue how to go about getting it if you’re not a nurse? I got an email from the dept of health
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Post by Inky on Jan 1, 2021 20:29:55 GMT -5
DD got her first dose of vaccine on thursday and gets the second in 21 days.
She said it was very easy. Either the nurse was especially gifted at giving needles or it was the vaccine itself. I'll give the nurse credit. And she was told not to drink alcohol for 18 hours or 24 hours??What's with that?
She did have to wait 10 or 15 minutes afterward, but I must confess that when DH and I get our flu shots, we don't wait around. Except at the little pharmacy here in town - he makes you wait.
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Post by marianparoo on Jan 2, 2021 7:36:56 GMT -5
I never doubted it was intentional.
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 4, 2021 9:22:52 GMT -5
I got mine today! The roll out past front line is going to be a clusterfuck. Our local vaccination center is at the firehouse where they’ve trained firemen/Emts how to give it. They seem to already be overwhelmed. I can only hope once Biden’s I office there will be a National plan. We have numerous convention centers in DFW standing empty. They should all be vaccination centers manned by anyone who has a med license including retirees if they’re able, to give shots 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I would gladly sign up for several 6 hour shifts a week. The current plan is nowhere near that They should be pulling in veterinarians, even! Saw a post on Twitter from a vet who says he gives vaccinations all the time, and his patients are trying to bite him, he'd welcome the opportunity to vaccinate humans. Saw a post from a guy in Florida who was waiting on Eventbrite to open a vaccination event so he could get tickets for his parents. So that's how they're doing it in Florida. Gosh, I wonder what percentage of senior citizens use Eventbrite on the regular?
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Post by stellarfeller on Jan 4, 2021 9:38:12 GMT -5
I saw that vet’s post too, Mo - gave me a good chuckle this morning 😄
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Post by nansel on Jan 4, 2021 10:25:32 GMT -5
I’d love to vaccinate someone who wasn’t trying to take my face off! My department only gets called in when the patient is not cooperating. And I have the scars to prove it! (in my province, non-vets can do all but rabies vaccinations).
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Jan 4, 2021 11:43:52 GMT -5
I might win for number of shots given with risk of biting 😂🤷♀️
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Post by krisa on Jan 4, 2021 11:46:22 GMT -5
DH's hospital received 3,100 doses. He works from home and is part of the Construction department. He could the vaccine right now if he wanted to. They have enough to vaccinate every employee.
My brother got the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday and he is in the maintenance department of a hospital. I will get it when it is made available to me. DH is on the fence and I honestly have no idea why.
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Post by stellarfeller on Jan 4, 2021 11:48:53 GMT -5
I might win for number of shots given with risk of biting 😂🤷♀️ That’s what bitewings are for! 😄
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Post by jen on Jan 4, 2021 16:36:21 GMT -5
Happily got my shot this afternoon
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Post by momof3b1g on Jan 4, 2021 20:25:02 GMT -5
Yes, they are. I'm not sure how many use it, but our county has had all it's spots gone within minutes every day. I much prefer that to the mess they had going in the county above us where senior citizens were sitting in lines overnight and capacity was being met by 7am when shots didn't even start for 2 more hours.
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Post by villanelle on Jan 4, 2021 22:17:33 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, other countries aren't having these issues with distribution. It seems like for the most part, this isn't a supply chain thing. Product is getting to providers, but then it isn't being administered, so the geography of our country doesn't seem like the answer.
I think part of the solution is for all of us to accept that availability isn't going to be exactly fair. If we air for perfect fairness, it's going to be way too slow. We just need to get needles in arms. That may not be exactly fair, but each person that gets vaccinated, no matter the precedence or order, makes all of us slightly safer.
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Post by stellarfeller on Jan 4, 2021 22:36:58 GMT -5
We’re having problems in Ontario. We have thousands of doses in storage, but they just aren’t being administered efficiently - many medical professionals, family doctors, nurses, pharmacists etc. haven’t even been asked to help vaccinate people. Our provincial government has been a complete failure at this and many other aspects of the pandemic.
Here’s a tweet from a family doctor who has been tracking the vaccine numbers:
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