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Covid-19 vaccine’s initial scarcity leads to tough choices for hospitals
Also read Why Dalit students are facing a fund crunch in India’s educational institutionsPhysician assistant Patrick Coppler hoped to get the vaccine quickly, he said, but not before emergency responders who have less control over exposure to contagious patients.The three health-care workers are among 60,000 at UPMC, the hospital system and health insurer affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, and about 740,000 across Pennsylvania according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, who will be the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine because of their critical jobs and risk at work. But with supply tight in first shipments, hospitals across the U.S.