Dozens of medical residents and peers at Stanford University’s affiliated hospital staged a protest Friday after being targeted behind the COVID-19 vaccination line – leaving red-faced administrators to admit the launch had “flaws”.
“First in the room, behind the line!” residents and peers chanted in a protest at Bay Area Hospital, Stanford Medical.
“I came out here after learning that only seven of the 1,349 residents were selected for the first wave of vaccinations,” third-year resident Charles Marcus told NBC during the protest.
The hospital quickly apologized.
“Our intention was to launch an ethical and fair plan for the entire organization and there were flaws in that plan that we are actively trying to repair,” the administrators said in a statement.
“We acknowledge the disappointment and suffering it has caused and appreciate those who have brought these concerns to us,” the statement said.
“We will immediately review our plan to better sequence the distribution of the vaccine.”
Nurses, therapists, service carriers and food service workers could also get short-term savings, the station’s protesters said.
“We see all these people who should be in the first wave of people who have access to vaccines and tell us they are not,” said Angela Primbus, a third-year internal medicine resident.