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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief.
The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died.
“The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand physically and mentally over the last 10 months — we’ve just been disproportionately impacted,” she says. “I don’t think there’s anybody more deserving of having this vaccine on board as soon as possible, so that we can start to heal from this.”