Rural community in shock after Georgia health officials raid clinic vaccinating teachers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ELBERTON, Georgia -- A small Georgia city was still in shock Friday, days after state health workers raided the busiest medical clinic in the county and seized its Covid-19 vaccine supply because staffers had given doses to teachers.

Some 470 shots of the Pfizer vaccine were confiscated from the Medical Center of Elberton, a private clinic that had been the largest provider of vaccinations in Elbert County, leaving behind just enough medicine to guarantee second doses to people who have already been inoculated.

"Everything that we had tried to do up until now to vaccinate our county was just laid to waste," Dr. Jonathan Poon, who works at the clinic, told NBC News.

In addition, the George Department of Public Health said it would not be providing any more vaccines to the medical center for the next six months until July 27.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rural-community-in-shock-after-georgia-health-officials-raid-clinic-vaccinating-teachers/ar-BB1dqWot?li=BBnb7Kz

Is Jared working for Georgia now?

[JI7]

1. Do they say why this happened ?

[OhNo-Really]

2. Truly The Hunger Games

[Hortensis]

24. Or truly another vender will be doing the vaccinations now?

[Dorian Gray]

3. The next paragraph

"DPH took the action after learning the provider had been vaccinating individuals in the Elbert County School District who were outside of the current Phase 1A+ eligible population," the agency said in a statement."

[JI7]

5. I can understand that but there have also been issues of people

expected to get vaccines don't do it so they could end up going to waste. So unless there are issues with those those in the first phase having difficulty getting it then this just seems exteme.

[Midnight Writer]

8. That's how my niece got hers. Was in pharmacy near closing time, and they had leftover doses.

I guess once they are thawed, they have to be used.

Some people who had appointments didn't show, so they had thawed doses on hand.

She wasn't expecting it, but the pharmacist went around the store offering the shots to whoever wanted one.

She is a teacher, so I am glad she is on the road to protection.

[Dorian Gray]

23. I don't disagree

that paragraph showed GA's reasoning. Was sharing it. It's not my opinion. I believe that they should be vaccinating everybody they can and that teachers should be moved up to a higher category in GA.

[femmedem]

6. Teachers weren't eligible yet for vaccines. It was a misunderstanding of vaccination phases.

Teachers had been considered essential workers into December, then they weren't. They had no idea they were violating state policy.
It's all explained in the OP's link.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Vaccinating teachers is now serious violation of public health law?

Good God.

If we are going to get kids back to school, teachers must be vaccinated.

[onecaliberal]

7. We've had teachers back in person instruction since November:

We’ve been told we don’t need vaccines because kids don’t get covid at school. So many people have been sacrificed. It’s physically sickening to me everyday. It also no longer matters if you’re immunocompromised and at risk for severe illness.

[Irish_Dem]

9. And the new mutations are more transmissible and deadly.

I firmly believe teachers need to be vaccinated as soon as possible.
They should be in 1b for sure.

[onecaliberal]

12. Should be but know for a fact we won't be.

The head of CDC saying it wasn’t necessary isn’t going to help that cause.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I saw that statement and could not believe what I was hearing.

[onecaliberal]

16. I have been shocked at how many people think they

Should decide to sacrifice teachers because none of them have to stand in a room with 30 people for 7 hours a day. Trying to pretend these people are safe is beyond the pale.

[Irish_Dem]

18. I know, it goes against common sense and everything they have told us

about transmission.

[Hortensis]

26. But maybe we should. The adults are in charge now

and the recommendations the world-class epidemiologists at the CDC make are based on real information on how to stop the the pandemic quickest and save the most lives.

A close family member is a teacher and just got over Covid. Poor thing almost never comes down with even a mild cold, and this was an unfortunate way of being brought up to speed on what being sick is.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Dems are not like the Qanons. We can think critically and evaluate info.

As much as I respect the new CDC team, when they say something that doesn't line up with the science they themselves have talked about, or doesn't make sense, I am going to question it.

[Hortensis]

30. But Irish, the QAnoners also believe they think critically.

The scam is to delude them into believing they're seeking truth, while they're actually following planted links to untruths.

But, so far as they know, their job is to research on line, applying their critical thinking skills. When they find "something that doesn't line up with" something else, they "question it."

And thus they come to believe they themselves are the real experts and learn to distrust the supposed experts who say something they think doesn't line up. A trap.

And everyone else also has a similar delusional trap to fall into. Reading a few articles and trading opinions on social media not only doesn't make anyone an expert, but even imagining he could be qualified to disagree with the real thing indicates huge ignorance of what expertise is.

[Demsrule86]

10. That is a lot of bullshit. My sister is in Paulding County Georgia... they have double digit cases

in her elementary school and are on split days and virtual now.

[onecaliberal]

14. We have hundreds of cases in our schools right now.

Our ICU has had 0% ICU since November. We are at only at 6% as of today. But the dumb fucks here are all having super bowl parties so that will turn bad again soon.
The governor opened 2 vaccine super centers one in northern and one in Southern California even though Fresno is 3rd poorest city in America per capita. Still getting only 8,000 doses a week for more than 2 million people. Supposedly that is equity. 🤷?♀️
Going to work everyday knowing I am risking myself and my husband is taking its toll after 9 months.

[monmouth4]

11. In Florida, DeSatan gave the vaccine out to only Qpublican counties. This crap needs Joe's

attention ASAP...

[bullwinkle428]

15. "What the fuck are you doing? Those doses were supposed to go to rich people!!!"

[marlakay]

17. Thats crazy but its left up to the state

My state did teachers before older folks.

[Vivienne235729]

19. Well then maybe the state needs to pay for these vaccines if they're going to do that

[stopdiggin]

20. dispute seems to be

whether the clinic was "knowingly" violating the state's directive. The state's position seems to be that the actions were deliberate and not simple miscommunication.

[crickets]

21. Regardless of who did what and why, taking vaccines away from this clinic

for six months just deprives the surrounding community of a needed medical resource. All they had to do was say, "stop giving the vaccine to anyone other than [clarification of Phase 1A+]."

"It’s heartbreaking," the doctor said. "We poured everything in the past few months to try and make this a success."

Early on, Poon said, they invested $7,000 out of their own pockets on an expensive freezer capable of storing the vaccines because they wanted to be part of pandemic solution.

"We were humble," he said. "We did not expect a pat on the back. We thought that this was part of the plan."

*sigh*

[Hortensis]

28. Another entity will do the vaccinations. The violating clinic

remains open for business otherwise.

I'd be hesitant, though, to use a clinic that didn't keep informed on basic public health information. How, as an official vaccination center, they avoided knowing who they were to vaccinate is a bit of a mystery. we did; it's in the newspaper.

Competence and due diligence in physicians are critically important. Maybe this clinic shouldn't have been selected over others in the first place?

[Hortensis]

29. Another entity will do the vaccinations. The violating clinic

remains open for business otherwise.

I'd be hesitant, though, to use a clinic that didn't keep informed on basic public health information. How, as an official vaccination center, they avoided knowing who they were to vaccinate is a bit of a mystery. My husband and I did; we're in FL right now but get the AJC on line.

Since competence and due diligence are critically important in healthcare workers, maybe this clinic shouldn't have been selected over others in the first place.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. They should send in the feds to administer vaccines there.

Bypass state governments where they have to.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. It's The Hangover From The T***p Plan

And that "plan" was "If States call, send 'em some."
The reason we have a logistics & execution problem in vaccinations is that these morons never developed a plan, despite what was claimed in that self-serving interview Slaoui gave to Science magazine. (The former head of warp speed)

[Footay]

31. The teachers don't like that they weren't first in line

I am so glad this happened - maybe it will send a message to those who aren't following guidelines in other states.

Each state is handling the distribution differently. I live right on the border of two states with vastly different plans. One is doing it by ages, the other is doing "essential workers." The amount of uproar by teachers in the "ages" state is crazy because they see teachers 10 miles away getting a vaccine.

I agree with the age distribution, because it's easy to prove an age with state ID. People have been putting the vaccination sites, many of which are run by volunteers, into a bad spot. Anyone can show up and claim they are eligible. It's too easy to make up some credentiai and show up.