it's probably that they don't want to waste the doses, and the public health departments have not coordinated with the hospitals to use those extra doses On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, heather Howard wrote: > This happened at Stanford. Is this what the Boston hospital is trying as well? > > From The New York Times: > > At Elite Medical Centers, Even Workers Who Don’t Qualify Are Vaccinated > > Administrators and young graduate students have been inoculated at leading > research hospitals, contrary to state and federal guidelines. > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/health/coronavirus-hospitals-vaccinations.html?smid=em-share