COVID-19 risks reemerge at nursing homes as workers decline vaccine and new residents struggle to get shots
Facilities are âa petri dish where we could have a resurgenceâ
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated May 8, 2021, 1:48 p.m.
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A team of pharmacists from CVS, including Taline Tokatlian at center, prepared to vaccinate residents of Life Care of Acton in December, when the state aggressively pushed for protection for nursing home residents across the state.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
It was a battle many thought we had already won. Residents of nursing homes, the people most at risk of dying in the COVID-19 pandemic, were among the first to get vaccinated last winter, leading to a dramatic decline in new infections.
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Published February 15. 2021 11:18PM | Updated February 15. 2021 11:24PM
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Coronavirus developments across New England:
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Elderly Massachusetts residents who can’t leave their homes are struggling to get vaccinated, and disability advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to address the problem.
“We have been told that the state is planning to work with home health agencies to administer vaccinations to people who are stuck in their homes,” Colin Killick, executive director of Disability Policy Consortium, told The Boston Globe. “What we’ve heard (from the state) is short on details, and it’s alarming at this point.”