Doctors ‘left off’ vax list

These virus-fighting physicians have no shot.

City doctors who swab New Yorkers for COVID-19 say they’ve been left behind when it comes to getting vaccinated, despite their daily exposure to the bug.

Five doctors and a dentist interviewed by The Post said they don’t want to jump ahead of staff in emergency rooms and ICUs, who get first preference for the inoculations.

But they’d like to know when it’s going to be their turn.

“I’m so livid,” said Dr. Dyan Hes (right), who runs Gramercy Pediatrics. “Here we are trying to stay open to serve our patients. There is no plan whatsoever to have any of our staff immunized.”

The state’s distribution plan calls for high-risk hospital workers to go first in the massive vaccination effort, followed by nursing home residents and staff, then those in long-term care facilities, EMS workers “and all other front line health-care workers.”

It’s unclear when “all other front line health-care workers” can get the jab.

“We’re frontliners. We’re working everyday,” Hes fumed.

The CDC says health-care workers should be among the first to be vaccinated and defines them as “paid and unpaid persons serving in health care settings who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients or infectious materials.” It includes doctor’s offices in those settings.

New York started vaccinating hospital workers Dec. 14. Nursing home patients and staff began getting the shots Monday and the FDNY’s EMS began Wednesday.

Dr. Moushumi Sanghavi, a Manhattan gastroenterologist, said although her patients must get a coronavirus test before undergoing procedures, there is a risk of false negatives.

“I’m sure I’m doing procedures on COVID-positive patients without knowing it all the time. Obviously, I would love to be vaccinated. It just really doesn’t seem like efficient methods are in place, which is incredibly frustrating,” said Sanghavi, who later learned she could get the vaccine in Essex County, NJ, where she lives.

The state Health Department said the first group does include private-practice doctors, dentists and other direct health-care workers and that they “will be contacted soon with more information as it becomes available.”