Doctors at Barnes Jewish Hospital tell 5 On Your Side the hospital’s administration is vaccinating its staff according to age, and not putting frontline workers first.
The policy — which differs from SSM and Mercy’s plan — means some doctors, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists and emergency room physicians who treat COVID-19 patients have been told they won’t be vaccinated until the end of January.
And secretaries and other support staff are getting vaccinated ahead of them, according to the doctors who spoke to 5 On Your Side on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from hospital administration.
In a statement, Dr. Clay Dunagan, Chief Clinical Officer for BJC HealthCare, said the system is following CDC guidance and giving priority to staff who interact with patients.
But the doctors who spoke exclusively to 5 On Your Side said that is not true.
“Barnes will say ‘we are doing all of our patient-facing employees,’ but it is a lie,’” one doctor said. “The secretaries do not interact with patients, and more specifically COVID patients, and yet we will be grinding day and night with COVID patients for the next several weeks.
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