Dr. Somos, President of Somos Community Care, a network of clinics in New York City. Tallaj, “People are ready to fight over who goes first, or who doesn’t go first,” but the important thing is that it’s happening. Many patients from the Hispanic and Asian immigrant communities spoke about vaccination.
Health care workers and nursing home residents and staff members make up what is called Phase 1 of the New York State Vaccine Distribution Plan. About two million people are in the group, and the state’s initial vaccination allocation likely means that Phase 2, which includes essential workers, will not begin until the end of January. (Extensive distribution is not expected to begin until the summer, officials said.)
But the state has largely left it to every health care institution to devise a vaccination plan during the first phase. In the first week of vaccination, many hospitals selected first place among the various healthcare workers – nurses, doctors cutters, home carers – in their organizations receiving their vaccines from emergency rooms and intensive care units. But in the days following the celebration with the first shot, the mood in the hospitals has changed.
Regarding the question of cutting the vaccine line at New York-Presbyterian and Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, the New York-Presbyterian said in a statement: “We are proud to vaccinate thousands of patients in just one week Will continue. A vaccine. We are following all New York State Department of Health guidelines regarding vaccine priority, with our initial focus on ICU and ED staff and equal access for all. “
Nonetheless, the Times interviewed four health care workers at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, all of whom were outraged at colleagues and frustrated that hospital administrators had allowed the vaccine delivery system to be developed.
A nurse at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital said she went to confront a social worker who believed the social worker felt she deserved to be vaccinated in front of others.
“She said,‘ We have to go to the ER at some point, ’but that’s not true,’ the nurse said of the social worker.
