Nursing home residents and staff at top of COVID-19 vaccine priority list
With the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine starting to roll out on Monday, nursing home staff and some residents can expect to start getting the vaccine as soon as Dec. 28.
Nursing home staff and residents are at the top of the list to get vaccines, along with front-line health care workers, according to doctors at a news conference Monday morning at the University of Kansas Health System, Kansas City, Kansas.
The federal government created partnerships with pharmacies to give the vaccines, and CVS and Walgreens will provide vaccines to most of the nursing homes in the nation, said Dr. Jessica Kalender-Rich, a physician in the geriatrics field at KU Health System, and a member of the national Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.