The care home said the doses were administered to avoid wasting open vials of vaccine.ĭuration 3:00 A nurse at a Toronto-area long-term care home says she was told to give COVID-19 vaccines to at least one board member, and family members and friends of several managers. 'We have so many people who are vulnerable of dying from COVID.… This actually means we're wasting doses and we're actually costing lives.' Samir Sinha, the director of geriatrics at Sinai Health in Toronto. 'If these allegations are proved to be correct, this is just completely unacceptable,' said Dr. The union further asserts that one of the home's medical staff left the premises with approximately five doses of the Moderna vaccine 'for what appeared to be personal use.' 'I believe that they got the vaccine because they know somebody who's a manager at a long term care home who gave them priority access to the vaccine,' Charlene Nero, secretary treasurer of Laborers' International Union of North America Local 3000, told CBC News. The union filed a grievance against the home on Thursday. Because it’s pretty easy to see how a confusing plan could cause some big problems if there’s another misunderstanding.Amid a vaccine shortage in Canada, at least one board member and the family of some managers at a Toronto-area nursing home are being accused of inappropriately keeping COVID-19 vaccinations for themselves.Ī health-care union claims a nurse was required to inoculate at least 10 individuals who were not care-home residents or front-line staff at Villa Leonardo Gambin, a non-profit home managed by Sienna Senior Living in Vaughan, Ont. I hope the DOH and the Inslee administration take this relatively small issue and consider ways to make their plan (based on CDC phases) easier to understand, both internally and externally. If the miscommunication impacted seniors, pregnant women, children, or teachers, this could have caused some significant issues. The COVID call center didn’t get many questions because we don’t have many sex workers. But what if it was a miscommunication impacting more than a small demographic? I also thought - despite having to pull some teeth to get a couple answers from King County Public Health - the DOH and Public Health handled this quickly. This was an issue that impacted a very small group of people (sex workers). It’s not user friendly, and even county officials are struggling to follow along. There are too many phases, too many tiers, too many sub-tiers.

The state’s vaccine rollout plan is confusing. My spirit feels pretty broken about this. Conservative media got a hold of my tweet & put pressure on the health department which is now calling it a “misunderstanding” & say sex workers won’t be given vaccination priority. Update: Received news from my contact at county DOH. But it’s reasonable to acknowledge sex workers are not “first responders” and they shouldn’t jump the line when there is limited supply and vulnerable populations in need. There was no pressure.Įveryone should get the vaccine and it should be free. She now claims that the county caved to “conservative media” pressure to stop plans to vaccinate sex workers. I was the only person to call and receive the erroneous information, according to a spokesperson. Public Health - Seattle & King County informed the call center operators of the accurate information. Our staff member passed that information on to the community member, who then posted a tweet on it.”Ĭlearing up the misunderstanding, but a new lieĪs of now, everyone should be on the same page. “A contact at DOH responded in good faith with guidance to our staff that sex workers were included in phase 1. “In response to a question from a community member, our staff reached out to get clarity from DOH regarding eligibility from sex workers,” a spokesperson for Public Health - Seattle & King County tells the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. Sparks did, in fact, get the information from a King County staffer and passed it along in good faith. Rantz: Gary Ridgway, inmates in process of receiving COVID vaccines, well before your grandparents Rumor based in misunderstanding of a very confusing plan It is all an honor-based system,” Sparks said in a since-deleted tweet. That is why workers can sign up now as first responders if we wanted (I did).

Others wondered how they could prove they qualify. Some followers asked how they could get these vaccinations. The rumor was met with excitement online - and many questions.

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