How are vaccines prioritized at long-term care facilities?

Facilities have to register with the national CDC program to get on the priority list.
Author: Galen Ettlin
Updated: 10:00 PM PST January 1, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. — COVID-19 vaccinations continue into the new year with more than 44,000 people in Oregon receiving the first dose so far.
Some of those people are living and working in long-term care facilities.
Carol Biskupic Knight is a teacher in Beaverton, whose husband lives in a memory care facility. John Knight was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at age 57.
In order to maintain contact with him, Biskupic Knight has maintained a strict routine over the last nine months, staying isolated. More recently, she has started getting weekly COVID-19 tests.

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