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CVS Pharmacist Carrie Barfield, left, vaccinates Rose Villa receptionist Nancy Daniels, with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. The facility says it is OregonÕs first long term care facility to receive the vaccine, and planned to vaccinate 145 staff and 35 24-hour care residents.
The first Oregon nursing home staff and residents are receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccination on Monday.
The vaccines are being made available to most nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Oregon through a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and pharmacy chains such as CVS and Walgreens, which will transport and administer the shots.
‘The end of an incredibly long road’ as first Oregon senior care home staff and residents get coronavirus vaccine
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
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But like most things related to ending the coronavirus pandemic, the occasion was, in fact, momentous.
Gwen Riggs was about to be the first Rose Villa Senior Care Living Community worker to get a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, setting yet another milestone in Oregon’s effort to end the pandemic’s brutal toll on seniors in nursing, assisted living and memory care homes.
Six months into her medical career, Riggs said she looked forward to knowing that the vulnerable residents in her care will have an extra level of protection from a potential outbreak and possible death.