11-07-2009, 12:02 AM
I think it's a fairly sensible idea to use the existing health clinics and services of companies to help distribute the vaccine to the most at-risk. Just because you work at Citi doesn't mean you cannot be high risk. And in theory it means there are x-number less people standing in line in front of you when you go for your shot.
But someone should have realized that this would only fly if they made certain that hospitals and clinics got their share before the companies did. Because it is a PR blunder, not because it is an unworkable concept.
In New York, doctors at companies that have employee health services can request the vaccine along with other doctors but must agree to vaccinate only high-risk employees, Scaperotti said.
Scaperotti said 50 employers in New York City have received the vaccine so far. Besides Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, they include Time Inc. and hospitals such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1804257
But someone should have realized that this would only fly if they made certain that hospitals and clinics got their share before the companies did. Because it is a PR blunder, not because it is an unworkable concept.
In New York, doctors at companies that have employee health services can request the vaccine along with other doctors but must agree to vaccinate only high-risk employees, Scaperotti said.
Scaperotti said 50 employers in New York City have received the vaccine so far. Besides Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, they include Time Inc. and hospitals such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1804257