It's something when even Mass General Hospital botches the vaccine rollout.

[LAS14]

There was an interview on CNN the other day with a young staff person from Mass General. I didn't catch her title. Probably a nurse since she talked about "caring for a baby." Anyway, she explained in very clear, dispassionate terms how the procedure had been to open the sign up software at 3 p.m. exactly. There were little or no controls on who could log on and grab an appointment. By the time the people actually working with COVID patients were free from their shift there were no appointments left. They'd all been snapped up by administrators and other people not working directly with COVID patients.

The decision to make the appointments available only to certain employees in the first round wouldn't require IT training. It's the kind of decision a beginning amateur programmer would make without thinking.

I couldn't believe it.

One thing the Trump era has revealed is how STUPID the American populace is. I'm not suggesting the MGH IT staff are Trumpers. Just that they're scarry stupid.

[hlthe2b]

1. Common issue. I've heard the same happened with Emory University Hospitals, leaving ER and ICU

HCWs without access to appointments, especially among those working at locations outside the main campus.

It is infuriating and will likely be repeated across the country.

[LiberalArkie]

2. They don't wear masks or wash up when they leave work premises also.

[CrispyQ]

3. Repubs on education:

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." ~Karl Rove

Back in the 80s the right focused on filling positions on Boards of Education across the country, at the same time defunding public education and/or redirecting funds to administrative salaries and uses. It's paid off handsomely. Well, until now. Courting the racists, zealots, & loons might backfire on them. I hope they cleave the party in two.

[Hoyt]

4. You'd think they'd have vaccination sites convenient to healthcare

workers coming off or on shift. Heck, do it on the floors with portable scanners.

[33taw]

5. Public Health Departments used to do this like clock work. Cutting them out is stupid (IMO).

[LAS14]

6. Toxic individualism is causing public health workers, at least in some areas...

... of the midwest, to simply resign. They are not only insulted, they are threatened. So we don't have to worry about cutting them out, they're leaving on their own. Understandably.

[33taw]

8. I agree. I wouldn't stay either. But, they do know this routine.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Ridiculous. My workplace would bring in a nurse with flu shots every year.

The floor supervisors would round up the people in their department and take them all down to get their shots.

Everybody (except for a couple of dissenters) got their shot as their supervisors checked people off their lists.

Simple. Screw the online signups and appointments. They are not necessary. Just a checklist of employees.

You would think in a hospital setting they could just take a cart around to each department and get everyone covered.