. While states aren't held to those recommendations, most are expected to follow them.
"Leaving that to the hospitals with some guidance from the state health department about things to think about when making those decisions makes more sense than somebody trying to figure out how to micromanage." "It's both an issue that they have the most potential exposure, but also an issue that there aren't a lot of them," he said.
That could include anybody from nurses who work in the ICUs to environmental services staff who clean the hospital and handle COVID waste, Dr. Kristin Dascomb, medical director for infection prevention and employee health, said in an interview. The system had planned to get an initial allotment of 30,000 doses for 3,000 employees who indicated they would like the access to the delivery. But Buxton said Michigan told the system on Friday to "expect approximately one-sixth" of what they had planned for.
McLaren bought five ultra-cold storage freezers that keep Pfizer vaccines in the weeks leading up to the vaccine distribution, Buxton said. Once the state gives the health system the initial vaccine allotment, McLaren will store equal amounts in each location, giving both rural and urban based locations the same amount.
Intermountain plans to vaccinate its own workers. Four Intermountain hospitals will be among five hospitals in Utah tapped by the state to receive some of the first vaccines, as they were best equipped to give the shots quickly and provide the ultra-cold storage necessary to store Pfizer's vaccine, which must be kept at a temperature of negative 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rather than saving half of the first shipment to give workers their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine 21 days later, Dascomb said Intermountain will dole out shots to as many people as possible because it anticipates getting regular shipments. The system will also stagger employees who work together by the alphabetical order of their last names, "so we don't inadvertently cause a problem from a staffing perspective," Balcezak said.
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I hope this isn’t the end of the story here why are they giving this vaccine to the people saving our lives
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