Central New York nursing home residents expect to get coronavirus vaccine in 2 weeks
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Margaret Keenan, 90, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer coronavirus, gets a shot at University Hospital, Coventry, England, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. (Jacob King/Pool via AP)AP
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Within two weeks or less, nursing home residents are expected to be among the first people in Central New York to be injected with a new vaccine for the coronavirus.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are the targets of a massive distribution effort that will be rolled out by the federal and state governments. Senior facilities throughout the state are tentatively planning to start vaccinating residents and staff the week of Dec. 21, said Stephen Hanse, president of a state trade group representing nursing homes and assisted living facilities. There is a possibility the process could start earlier than that, he said.