Demand for COVID Booster Shots Raise Vaccine Staffing Concerns

Healthcare experts are informing that radical seeking booster COVID shots, vaccines for kids and the flu changeable whitethorn overwhelm an already stressed healthcare system.

CVS said it plans to adhd 25,000 employees nationwide this week to hole for a imaginable surge successful the request for COVID booster shots.

In the Bay Area, hospitals are scrambling to get much healthcare workers to assistance get shots into arms.

More than 1.4 cardinal radical ages 12 and older are afloat vaccinated successful Santa Clara County. Healthcare workers are

The imaginable spike successful the request for COVID booster shots comes aft the FDA advisory committee recommended boosters for radical property 65 and older and for those with underlying complications.

"What we are truly acrophobic astir successful the healthcare tract is that we person boosters and past we person the pediatric colonisation being capable to beryllium vaccinated," said Jo Coffaro, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California vice president. "And past we besides person flu play happening astatine the aforesaid time. And successful addition, we person the fatigue of our healthcare workers."

Coffaro said a question of healthcare workers are burned retired and leaving the assemblage oregon retiring. And portion infirmary s are trying to prosecute traveling nurses to capable spots, that has been a situation excessively due to the fact that galore of them are already successful request successful different parts of the state wherever COVID is inactive overwhelming hospitals.

"Everyone is competing for the aforesaid resources," Coffaro said.

Healthcare workers volition besides beryllium tasked with giving radical flu vaccines -- a perchance gangly bid with radical present going backmost to enactment and school. Doctors said that process could not beryllium streamlined.

"You tin decidedly get a flu changeable and COVID vaccine astatine the aforesaid time," said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UCSF infectious illness specialist. "There should beryllium nary confusion. It is precise harmless and precise effective."

In fact. Chin-Hong said Moderna is adjacent looking astatine combining the flu and COVID vaccines unneurotic successful the future.