On the one hand, the ‘vaccine hesitation’ is supposed to undermine our efforts to ‘get back to normal’. On the other hand, we have people willing to blatantly ignore the system designed to get us back to normal in the quickest and most effective way, they are so desperate that they are about to receive this jab.
NBC Bay Area:
One Medical is a member-based health practice – anyone can participate. After partnering with SFDPH, he began administering vaccines to his own eligible participants and members of the public who were referred by the county as a temporary One Medical member.
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Prior to receiving this information, the Investigation Unit received reports from people who paid the standard $ 200 membership fee just to take advantage of One Medical’s easy-to-book vaccine booking system. In some cases, individuals said they did not live in San Francisco. Some said they already had other health professionals.
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After reviewing One Medical’s response, the county said the organization had vaccinated people who were “under the age of 65 who identified themselves as Phase 1a health workers, but were not IHSS workers, DPH referrals or employees of a medical health worker. “