In response to a rumor that healthcare workers who treat COVID patients will be prioritized for vaccination in our health system, one of my co-residents asked, unironically, "Does that include us?" 1/

We've taken care of patients with COVID every day since March. We've held up phones and snapped pictures so other clinicians can "see" our patients without entering the room. We have little control over our schedules and our workplace exposures. 2/

We gulp down drinks in the bathroom. It was months into the pandemic before anyone in leadership realized we were still assigned to sleep in shared rooms during 28 hour calls. 3/

We comply with standards for safety that are explicitly "evidence-based" yet implicitly reflect the resource-limitations of our health system. 4/

It is, after all of this, deeply sad but not surprising that the trainees who form the backbone of our hospital's pandemic response have such low expectations that we will be remembered when vaccination begins. 5/5