Updated on January 13, 2021 at 7:14 pm
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Frustration is mounting among families and industry watchdogs who say elderly residents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities are slipping through the cracks during California’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and not receiving their shots as quickly as promised by state officials.
“What’s incredibly frustrating is we’ve spent the last 10 months waiting, hoping for the moment when vaccines would become available, only to find that the distribution of vaccines to the people most vulnerable in long-term care has really been a slow-motion train wreck,” said Mike Dark, a staff attorney at the non-profit California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.