the insult of cars nowadays is they dont even look cool theyre just polluting the earth and dont even look fuckable while doing it. maybe thats not the right word
“This kind of thing is pretty rampant,” [Dr. Ashish]
Jha said. “I have
personally heard stories like this from dozens of physician friends in a
variety of different states. Hundreds, if not thousands, of doses are
getting tossed across the country every day. It’s unbelievable.”
Jha said the ER doctor whose story he laid out in a Twitter thread
this week asked to not be identified, but his story, seen by thousands
of people, resonated with other medical professionals frustrated by
rules and regulations that they say are making it harder to get more
Americans vaccinated.
Why is this happening? Covid-19
vaccines have a short shelf life once they are thawed out for use, Jha
said. And because of federal and state mandates, hospitals and other
health care providers would rather risk a dose going bad than give it to
somebody who isn’t scheduled to get a shot.
At the same
time, states like Massachusetts now have rules requiring hospitals to
report the number of vaccine doses that have been discarded, Jha said.
“The
problem is that hospitals that do report this get pilloried in the
press for wasting vaccines,” Jha said. “So, many hospitals are not
reporting and this is happening across the country.”
