[dabigv13]

My wife was able to be vaccinated at the hospital where she takes call, but getting her small, private practice office staff vaccinated has been very difficult. It's done through a CA state public health agency, and when she called she got some call center person who knew nothing and was no help. As a specialty clinic her nurses and staff should be in the third phase of the tier 1a HCW allocation. Why ENT, which does aerosol generating procedures, is behind primary care clinics is a bit strange but in any case her staff should still be getting vaccines in arms now or very soon if our target is all of tier 1 in a month. Clearly that is not happening. Large hospitals certainly have leg up on early distribution, but if we can't even figure out how to vaccinate the relatively small number of HCWs, hard to see how this will scale quickly to the many more numerous groups in the next tier.

[dabigv13]

My wife was able to be vaccinated at the hospital where she takes call, but getting her small, private practice office staff vaccinated has been very difficult. It's done through a CA state public health agency, and when she called she got some call center person who knew nothing and was no help. As a specialty clinic her nurses and staff should be in the third phase of the tier 1a HCW allocation. Why ENT, which does aerosol generating procedures, is behind primary care clinics is a bit strange but in any case her staff should still be getting vaccines in arms now or very soon if our target is all of tier 1 in a month. Clearly that is not happening. Large hospitals certainly have leg up on early distribution, but if we can't even figure out how to vaccinate the relatively small number of HCWs, hard to see how this will scale quickly to the many more numerous groups in the next tier.