“Our first-wave experience demonstrated that some members of the research community may need to be redeployed to support work in patient care settings with Covid,” Mr. Copp said. Still, the medical centers have announced plans to immunize the rest of their employees beginning Monday. In New York State, only a fraction of the estimated 2.1 million frontline workers have been immunized. Andrew Cuomo has threatened to levy fines of up to $100,000 against hospitals that don’t vaccinate quickly enough to use their doses. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers were soon lining up at the hospital auditorium, according to several university employees.

Source: New York Times January 10, 2021 09:56 UTC