Morning Headlines 12/22/20
Mass General Brigham apologizes to employees for rocky vaccine rollout
A crush of sign-ups takes down employee COVID-19 vaccine appointment systems at Mass General Brigham and Tufts Medical Center.
A Texas hospital that was among the hardest hit with COVID-19 says that so many of its high-priority employees declined to receive the vaccine that it instead vaccinated a state senator, a sheriff’s deputy, and a community pharmacist and his daughter as it used all of its allocated 5,850 doses.
Joni Ernst Sparks Backlash for Getting COVID Vaccine After Spreading Conspiracy
US Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who previously accused doctors of falsifying COVID-19 deaths for money and claimed that only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths are actually caused by the infection, draws ire for tweeting out a photo that shows her receiving one of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Does anyone believe Seema Verma's story that "this is a dramatically improved system"? What is more likely, is that Oracle…