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As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
This is a failure of management from the very top, and people lower down getting the blame.
It is simply insane to me that most (all?) states haven't used the past six months to build proper portals that can do this. This doesn't even need to be some complex medical-records-transfer monstrosity -- allow people to put in their own information (or the information on non-tech-savvy relatives or neighbors), and verify them at the point of injection.
Here in Massachusetts, an extremely tech-savvy state, run by a health insurance exec, there is absolutely no centralized way to register yourself, and no way to put yourself on any kind of list at all, besides calling up individual vaccination sites once you become eligible. And there is no centralized list of what vaccination sites have openings (though a private citizen was able to make one via web scraping).
This is just Kafkaesque. People in a position of authority with blind adherence to rules intended for optimal scenarios. They're literally saying he should have just thrown them away instead of distributing them as best he was able. This whole thing is a logistical clusterfuck and they're trying to throw this dude under the bus. It's obscene.
As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
This lines up with what I know from family members doing vaccinations in other areas.
As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
And seriously on the other hand, most jobs are not potentially life and death situations. There are few, if any parallel situations to this. Maybe it would be akin to parking a company vehicle incorrectly so you could stop and help an injured person.
Nobody is safe from a social media drive by. But honestly I'm not surprised. Lockdowns and isolation have turned some of my more reasonable acquaintances into rabid social media junkies who do nothing but judge anyone for the smallest social infraction.
If anything, social media is going after the maliciously overzealous prosecutor on this.
I think it would be an easy to fix thing: Have a list of extra people available if you end up with an extra dose.
It shouldn't be that hard, we had a year for preparing for this...
As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
> After that, he said, the message was: “Just put it in people’s arms. We don’t want any doses to go to waste. Period.”
It sounds like not wasting the limited vaccine was actual policy (possibly unofficial policy, but the message he was receiving).
And this would be the right policy. It's absolutely correct to get vaccines into people before the expire, so long as you hav correctly exhausted all means available to you of finding the right people.
The issue is that the states haven't made it easy for providers to find the right people when you have six hours remaining to use a vaccine.
As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
It could introduce corruption otherwise too, selling doses that are about to expire to the highest bidder. Which then could introduce incentive to let more doses "expire". I agree that in this case it seems stupid, but the rule is there for a reason.
A lot of this "it was policy" argument fails when Harris County failed to produce evidence of said policy and its instruction.