Provincial officials say they did their best to guide hospitals to administer early COVID-19 vaccines only to those who actually provide care to patients, but concede the hospitals may have given doses to people who really shouldn’t have gotten them. Three GTA hospitals offered vaccines this month to back office administrative staff, volunteers, clinical researchers and information technology staff. In southwestern Ontario, a hospital network administered doses of vaccine to its executive team, some of whom are able to work from home. The hospital network defended the decision saying the doses would be wasted on the day they were administered if they were not used — CP24
