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Doctors 'furious' only 7 residents make 1st vaccine wave at California hospital
Stanford Medical Center residents protested the plan on Friday.

Front-line doctors at Stanford Medical Center protested Friday over the university's vaccine distribution plan, which they claim doesn't prioritize staff that works directly with COVID-19 patients.

Protesters chanted "We are not disposable," and held signs that said, "Front line workers need protection," "Vaccinate health care heroes" and "Residents can die too" as they demonstrated at the Palo Alto, California, hospital.

According to a medicine chief resident who spoke during the protest, only seven of the resident health staff, "including none of what we would consider the front-line residents," were slated to get vaccinated in the first wave of thousands of doses the hospital received.

"We are furious and angry with you," another chief resident said during the protest. "We cannot be first in the room and back of the line."