Stanford hospital erupts in protest after vaccine plan leaves out residents [UPDATED]

Enlarge / Protests by medical staff took place both inside and out of the hospital. (credit: Ars Technica)

Update, 10:00pm EST: Stanford Medicine shared the following statement with Ars: "We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan. Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine. We apologize to our entire community, including our residents, fellows, and other frontline care providers, who have performed heroically during our pandemic response. We are immediately revising our plan to better sequence the distribution of the vaccine."

Update, 7:15pm EST: According to the Washington Post, Stanford has apologized and announced that it would re-prioritize vaccine distributions immediately in order to move more of its front-line staff into the first wave of vaccinations.

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