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The coronavirus vaccine had to be used. So he used it. Then he was fired – SBS News
Last month, Hasan Gokal’s name and mugshot rocketed around the globe after an effort to keep coronavirus vaccine doses from being wasted. This is his story.
The Texas doctor had six hours. Now that a vial of COVID-19 vaccine had been opened on this late December night, he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours.
Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator.
After midnight, and with just minutes before…
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