Covid-19: Students overlooked for vaccine in favour of family members at Dublin hospital

A decision at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin to give leftover covid-19 vaccine family members of staff has sparked newspaper headlines, calls for hospital’s master resign, allegations that its board is trying silence a critical consultant. Senior counsel Brian Kennedy, commissioned establish facts on incident by hospital board, was told that, evening 8 January, queue vaccinations frontline workers “thinned out quickly shortly after 8.30 pm, which unanticipated.”1 Vials Pfizer-BioNTech drawn up had be used 2.30 am or discarded, Kennedy told. He reported “short informal conversation” between 11 individuals, consensus reached any doses should made available those present. Michael O’Connell, consultant obstetrician, accepted his interview with if he been against giving vaccines members, it would not have …