Connecticut officials are looking into the possibility of having to eventually administer booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccines in nursing homes, while also vaccinating new residents and staff who are coming into the facilities without having had a shot, Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday.
About 5% of the nursing home population has been turning over each week in Connecticut. The newcomers are overwhelmingly not vaccinated, said Josh Geballe, Lamont s chief operating officer. As a short-term fix, the state has asked the Connecticut National Guard to vaccinate those new admissions.
âBut in the meantime, weâve also been working with our acute care hospitals to make sure that theyâre vaccinating on discharge,â said Geballe, adding that nursing homes have been told they need to have a âvaccination partnerâ established with a pharmacy or other organization to ensure that the vaccination of new residents and staff is being done on a sustainable, ongoing basis goi
By Paul Hughes, Republican-American
State officials are responding to a renewed COVID-19 threat in Connecticut nursing homes from newly arrived residents who had not been vaccinated before they were admitted.
The steps that have been taken in recent weeks include deploying teams from the Connecticut National Guard to assist nursing homes vaccinate newcomers who had not been immunized against the coronavirus yet.
State officials said the situation is under control.
Nursing homes were a COVID hotspot in Connecticut. An outside consultant concluded in a report last year that the state’s emergency response planning overlooked nursing homes at the start of the coronavirus outbreak a year ago.
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State looking into booster shots for older residents
State looking into booster shots for older residents
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April 06, 2021 12:26PM By Susan Haigh And Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press
Connecticut officials are looking into the possibility of having to eventually administer booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccines in nursing homes, while also vaccinating new residents and staff who are coming into the facilities without having had a shot, Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday.
About 5% of the nursing home population has been turning over each week in Connecticut. The newcomers are overwhelmingly not vaccinated, said Josh Geballe, Lamont’s chief operating officer. As a short-term fix, the state has asked the Connecticut National Guard to vaccinate those new admissions.
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