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Many long-term care staffers in Florida refused the vaccine Now they have more infections than residents
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. â At Floridaâs long-term care facilities, more workers are now infected with COVID-19 than elderly residents, a dramatic shift from earlier in the pandemic.
Despite state and federal attempts to offer vaccinations at all nursing homes and assisted-living centers in the state, 62% of staffers have declined â posing the single biggest threat to the more than 25,000 elderly people in those facilities who are also unvaccinated.
âThese are the folks from the beginning that were bringing it in,â said Mary Daniel of Jacksonville, a caregiver and advocate for families of residents. âItâs frustrating. Staff members are choosing not to get the vaccine and itâs the residents who are getting punished because their families are getting locked out again.â