Philadelphia let 'college kids' distribute vaccines. The result was a 'disaster,' volunteers say.

[reACTIONary]

Source: Washington Post

Philadelphia let ‘college kids’ distribute vaccines. The result was a ‘disaster,’ volunteers say.

Philadelphia is home to some of the most venerated medical institutions in the country. Yet when it came time to set up the city’s first and largest coronavirus mass vaccination site, officials turned to the start-up Philly Fighting COVID, a self-described “group of college kids” with minimal health-care experience.

Chaos ensued......


“If there was anybody poised and ready to do this, it was us,” founder Ala Stanford told the magazine, adding that the city had suggested she team up with Philly Fighting COVID to administer vaccines. “I happen to have been a doctor for 23 years, longer than some of these kids have been living, but I need these white kids to teach me how to do it?”



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/27/philly-fighting-covid-vaccine/

[woodsprite]

1. Did Levine have anything to do with this group/decision? nt

[reACTIONary]

2. I'm not familiar with Philly, I did a search...

... in the article for "Levine" and did not find any mention.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. AFAIK, Philadelphia is

operating separetly than the rest of the state. It gets a direct shipment of vaccines and is responsible for distributing it and getting its residents vaccinated.

There's a large vaccination site being set up in my county. According to a story in the local paper about it, many retired doctors and nurses are volunteering to help with vaccinations. Our county community college also has a 2 yr nursing program and those students may also be involved in helping if needed.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. No - we get it directly from CDC allotments

https://billypenn.com/2021/01/20/philadelpha-covid-vaccine-schedule-priority-eligible-different-pennsylvania/

[LisaM]

3. Another link with no paywall.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/01/26/who-is-philly-fighting-covid/

[ancianita]

5. Know who'd be valuable national help for injection scaling? Over 20 million Insulin takers.

This health corps could thereby get huge discounts on their own insulin costs.

[reACTIONary]

14. Great idea! If I could I would....

... Let It Be So.

[mainer]

6. Future republicans. Profiting off charity...

and stealing vaccines while they were at it.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Here's the deal

The organization "Philly Fighting Covid" was originally a non-profit that offered to partner with and had a contract with the city for COVID-19 testing with volunteer medical personnel. The org then offered to do vaccinations (also with volunteer medical personnel) and promoted themselves pretty heavily, offering "sign ups", etc. But shortly after, changed to "for-profit" and it went downhill from there.

From what I gather from the city's presser that I watched yesterday, the group did one weekend of vaccinations.

As a note, having "some of the most venerated medical institutions in the country" is irrelevant when a city of almost 1.6 million people is only getting 20,000 doses per week (and was told to expect that until the end of February). Philly's dose allotments are coming directly from CDC (as one of the 5 cities getting direct distribution) and are not coming out of the state's allocation.

[marble falls]

9. Your facts change the story a lot. Thanks!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. The local media were all over this yesterday at the end of the briefing!

(which I knew they would be )

(they do these weekly on Tuesdays at 1 pm)

[marble falls]

11. We have to be vigilant, they're looking for poop to throw at us. They will try to gin ...

... up Trump level of missteps.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yeah we had a whole election cycle of "ginned up poop" here.

I'm still waiting for the Philadelphia Inquirer to retract or acknowledge their bullshit during the election after a 9,000 vote increase for Biden in 2020, over the "historic" 2008 Obama votes that they were referencing in multiple articles, before all the votes were counted (and then they "moved on", pretending that people would forget) -

Philly was supposed to turn out huge for Biden. It didn’t. What happened?
by Jonathan Tamari, Chris Brennan, Sean Collins Walsh and Jonathan Lai, Posted: November 15, 2020

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/philadelphia-2020-election-turnout-biden-trump-20201115.html

2020
(from the city site as of 11/17/20 as of 6:52 pm EST - https://results.philadelphiavotes.com/ResultsSW.aspx?type=FED&map=CTY)




2008
(from the state site - https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/General/CountyResults?countyName=Philadelphia&ElectionID=17&ElectionType=G&IsActive=0)



(sorry for the rant but this still has me seething)

[usaf-vet]

13. Why not encourage ex military medics to assist in the vaccination programs. They HAVE experience.

[Miguelito Loveless]

15. Retired/active duty medics

retired nurses/doctors, advanced med students, dentists... Heck, give a training course to diabetics and other people used to giving injections to themselves and others for chronic health issues. I give my wife injections three times a week for her MS, piece of cake. Just need to know questions to ask and forms to fill out.

[RicROC]

16. as far as finding places for clinics...

There are health care clinics already set up at area colleges. In addition, Urgent Care Clinics have popped up like mushrooms during the last few years. Why re-invent the clinic?