(NYP) – Some Big Apple health care workers are furious that less-at-risk hospital staffers have been cutting the line to get the COVID-19 vaccine — prompting a cut-throat battle for the life-saving shots, according to a report Friday.
Doctors and nurses at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and other medical centers are turning against each other after higher-ups failed to prioritize and regulate who gets the jabs first, sources told the New York Times. “Clearly, we’re ready to mow each other down for it,” one doctor from Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital told the paper.
Under the hospital’s rules, the most exposed employees — such as nurses and doctors in emergency rooms — were supposed to receive the vaccination first, followed by workers in other departments. But employees far from the front lines — including social workers and clerks working from home —
allegedly slipped into vaccination rooms ahead of schedule, according to the report. The line-skipping sparked a “free-for-all” at the hospital during the first 48 hours after the vaccine arrived, a second doctor told the paper. “I think the sad thing is people are starting to turn against each other,” the doctor said. “Can you honestly say this clerk deserves it before I do? No, but nobody deserves it before anyone else.” READ MORE
