Health care provider loses COVID vaccines after reportedly vaccinating ineligible people - WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland

(NEXSTAR) – Concierge health care provider One Medical is losing coronavirus vaccine allocations from California and Washington state for reportedly vaccinating ineligible people, including those with connections to company leaders.

NPR reported Wednesday that One Medical, a subscription-based health care service, allowed those with connections to company leadership as well as ineligible subscribers to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line.

The San Francisco Public Health Department directed the company to return 270 vials of the Pfizer vaccine, containing over 1,600 doses.

The Washington State Health Department told NPR it had also stopped allocating vaccines to the company.

Currently, California is vaccinating health care workers, long-term care residents, individuals over 65 years of age and those who work in agriculture and food, education and child care and emergency services.

Washington is vaccinating anyone 65 years and older, health care workers, first responders, people who live in long-term care facilities, those who live in multigenerational households and workers “in health settings who are at risk of COVID-19.”.