re: More than 12 million vaccine doses sent to states

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I didn’t know hospitals were that dependent on fresh grads.

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We're not talking about the staff at your average hometown hospital here. We're talking about the larger hospitals that bring in fresh grads to train under the supervision of very experienced attending physicians while treating patients. Doctors graduate from med school in May/June and need somewhere to go to do their residency to complete the next step of their training. Don't forget that you don't just start doing your thing after medical school. There's three years of residency, then at least one more year fellowship/specialty training. So, that's a minimum of four years post medical school that the system has to smoothly integrate with the graduation window of baby docs.

Since med schools graduate in May/June, everything else regarding further training is pretty much keyed to that timeframe. Contracts are written to end about then. Senior residents that have completed their training at the teaching hospital and wish to move on for specialized training, fellowships, etc. all leave on that schedule as well.

You can't just take one part of the training progression and move those people away from that May/June turnover window without completely fricking up the entire system, with effects possibly rippling through the system for four or more years.